{"id":12,"date":"2023-06-19T12:36:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T19:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2023-06-19T12:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T19:36:25","slug":"no-such-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/uncategorized\/no-such-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"No Such Thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a child I was really scared of the dark and the monsters and ghosts that surely lurked within. But my parents and relatives would scoff and say, &#8220;there&#8217;s no such thing as <em>_<\/em>&#8220;. Eventually, I lost my fear and became just like them, i.e., believing there were no such things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward to middle age and I began looking into the many claims of the paranormal including UFOs, cryptids, and ghosts. I discovered there was a lot more to it than just a few wackos claiming a bunch of nonsense. In fact, I dug so deeply into one topic that I found out for myself it was real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From this I learned that when faced with extraordinary claims it is better to listen respectfully, consider, and be intellectually honest enough to say that you don&#8217;t know if it is true or not instead of blurting out &#8220;there&#8217;s no such thing as <em>_<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mention this today as a direct response about David Grusch&#8217;s extraordinary claims. I disagree with the people who automatically assume everything he&#8217;s saying is factual AND the people who are automatically saying he&#8217;s not credible. I am specifically calling out the usual sea of believers and particularly the pseudo-skeptics like West, Greenstreet, Greenewald, etc. because they purport to be objective but have shown themselves to be biased and lacking in intellectual honesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child I was really scared of the dark and the monsters and ghosts that surely lurked within. But my parents and relatives would scoff and say, &#8220;there&#8217;s no such thing as _&#8220;. Eventually, I lost my fear and became just like them, i.e., believing there were no such things. Fast forward to middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugimus.com\/bugslog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}