Episode 117 - Eyewitness Accounts and UFOs, Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Loftus
Exposing PseudoAstronomy
English - September 01, 2014 12:00 - 28 minutes - 22.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 186 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 116 - The Electric Universe, Part 2, with Dr. Tom Bridgman
Next Episode: Episode 118 - The Big Mars Hoax / The Two Moons Hoax
The majority of UFO = aliens reports today - if not in quality then at least in quantity - come from simple eyewitness testimony. People often point to "trained observers" as being key witnesses, such as police officers or pilots. But, skeptics tend to dismiss these reports, and in this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus shares her research into the fallibility and manipulability of human memory, with implications for why this kind of testimony is not considered good evidence.