Strategic Ignorance and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Critiquing the Discursive Segregation of UFOs from Scientific Inquiry

@article{Dodd2018StrategicIA,
  title={Strategic Ignorance and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Critiquing the Discursive Segregation of UFOs from Scientific Inquiry},
  author={Adam Dodd},
  journal={Astropolitics},
  year={2018},
  volume={16},
  pages={75 - 95},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:148687469}
}
  • A. Dodd
  • Published 8 March 2018
  • Physics
  • Astropolitics
ABSTRACT Since the late 1940s, a tenacious disconnect between popular interest and professional disinterest in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) has typified the controversy surrounding the subject. Numerous high-profile scientists have seen the topic of UFOs as an opportunity to denounce and rectify a popular, yet allegedly misguided, conviction—that some UFOs are physical anomalies indicating the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence—and thus to advance the explanatory authority of… 
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