UFO News Article (Blog): “No science, please, we’re TEDx”

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.”

http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15975/no-science-please-were-tedx/

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Alexander Wendt, U.S. Political Scientist and Educator

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UFO Lecture: “Wanted: A Science of UFOs | Alexander Wendt | TEDxColumbus”

Published: 4 February 2020

(TED Conferences LLC, New York City, New York)

Source: TEDx Talks (YouTube channel)

Alexander Wendt is a German born U.S. political scientist and 
educator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_RquOChJuE

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Alexander Wendt, U.S. Political Scientist and Educator
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UFO Mailing List Post:

“Important PolySci Paper On Government ‘UFO Taboo’ ”

by Brad Sparks, 3 August 2008

(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)

Brad Sparks presents a review of Dr. Alexander Wendt and 
Dr. Raymond Duvall’s paper (lecture), “Sovereignty and the UFO,” 
which was published in the August 2008 issue of Political Theory:

http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2008/aug/m03-011.shtml

Brad Sparks, U.S. UFO Lecturer & Researcher
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UFO News Article (Blog):

“UFOs On the Record: debunkers beware”

by Billy Cox, 10 August 2010

(De Void, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida)

Billy Cox gives his views on Leslie Kean’s book, “UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record”:

http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11096/ufos-on-the-record-debunkers-beware/

Quote from the article:

“Her reasoning is sharpened by two political science professors, Dr. Alexander Wendt of Ohio State University, and the University of Minnesota’s Dr. Raymond Duvall, who contribute an essay, “Militant Agnosticism and the UFO Taboo.” They make a strong case that “the problem of UFO ignorance is fundamentally political before it is scientific.”

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UFO Lecture Review: 

“Sovereignty and the UFO”

by Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall,

Mershon Center for International Security Studies,

19 January 2006

(The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)

The lecture addressed the puzzle of why it is that modern states 
do not take unidentified flying objects seriously, The Ohio State 
University informs:

https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/30159

Quote from the article:

“Alexander Wendt is the Ralph D. Mershon Professor of International Security Studies at the Mershon Center, and Raymond Duvall is Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change/MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Global Change, Sustainability, and Justice at the University of Minnesota.”

Dr. Alexander Wendt (left), U.S. Political Scientist and 
Dr. Raymond Duvall, U.S. Political Scientist 
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UFO Paper/Lecture:

“Sovereignty and the UFO” 

by Alexander Wendt, The Ohio State University

and Raymond Duvall, University of Minnesota

(Political Theory (Volume 36, Number 4, August 2008),

SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California)

(Scribd, San Francisco, California)

The paper (lecture) discusses why modern states do not take unidentified flying objects seriously:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24388393/Sovereignty-and-the-UFO-By-Alexander-Wendt-and-Raymond-Duvall-Political-Theory-Journal

Dr. Alexander Wendt (left), U.S. Political Scientist and

Dr. Raymond Duvall, U.S. Political Scientist

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