Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

edhopper

(37,517 posts) Thu Dec 26, 2024, 06:34 PM Dec 2024

Skeptical discussion of NJ Drones

I was going to post this in GD, but just don't want to deal with the true believers.

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Skeptical discussion of NJ Drones (Original Post) edhopper Dec 2024 OP

This doesn't surprise me. Archae Dec 2024 #1

Is it fair to say that this craze has disappeared from the news, now they've decided to look at politics in 2025? muriel_volestrangler Jan 2025 #2

Archae

(47,245 posts)

1. This doesn't surprise me.

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2024, 12:49 AM

Dec 2024

During WW2, in one town, the locals were plagued with a "phantom gasser."
Never found, it was simply rumors and mass hysteria.

Don't forget the "Satanic Panic" during the 1980's.

muriel_volestrangler

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2. Is it fair to say that this craze has disappeared from the news, now they've decided to look at politics in 2025?

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 02:10 PM

Jan 2025

Plus actual important news like wildfires, of course. So it looks like people and the media were bored, and needed a shiny object, literally, to distract them.

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