By Billy Cox, 8 February 2020
(De Void, Sarasota Herald-Tribune , Florida
Quote from the article:
“The most disturbing thing about what happened to Alexander Wendt’s TEDx
video this week is that the curators of the TED Talks brand aren’t stupid. Dial
up any of the presentations in their voluminous online collection and you’re
going to learn something, from international trailblazers like Jane Goodall and
Bill Gates, or up-and-coming unknowns with big and provocative ideas.
But after TEDx ‘flagged’ Wendt’s 12-minute lecture ‘Wanted: A Science of
UFOs’ even as it reluctantly, belatedly, posted the clip Tuesday on YouTube,
you have to wonder if, like SETI’s Seth Shostak, these normally judicious
arbiters of what progress is and is not haven’t disqualified themselves from
the most astonishing conversation of our age. ‘Claims made in this talk,’ they
warned in the video cutlines, ‘only represent the speaker’s personal
understanding of UFOs which are not corroborated by scientific evidence.’
Did you get that? The judges just pleaded guilty. I’m smelling a trend.”
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