Overwhelming belief in aliens is ‘dangerous’ to society, new paper warns

Don’t tell Mulder and Scully.

An academic in England says that earthlings are coming very close to UFO conspiracies and that “it is no longer an oddity but a widespread social problem”.

“This belief is a bit paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist,” Tony Milligan, a researcher in ethical philosophy at King’s College London, recently wrote for The Conversation.

“Furthermore, given the great distances between star systems, it seems strange that we would learn about them from just one visit.” “Evidence for aliens is more likely to come from signals from distant planets,” the dissenter said.

Milligan, now published in the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, cited recent “alarming” statistics that nearly a quarter of Americans believe they have seen a UFO.

He added that recent federal initiatives to release classified information have only fanned the flames stoked by Jimmy Carter, who promised more answers to Americans while campaigning in the 1970s.

Now, the Pentagon’s hearings on unidentified aerial phenomena and signals are turning more and more people into conspiracy theorists, Milligan says.

He referred to a 2019 Gallup poll of the UAP pre-commission, which showed that 68% of people believe that “the US government knows more about UFOs than it says.”

Moreover, recent years have only “ultimately encouraged conspiracy theories, which can undermine trust in democratic institutions,” Milligan claims.

“A lot of background noise about UFOs and UAPs can also hinder legitimate scientific communication about the possibility of finding extraterrestrial microbial life,” he said of the search for evidence in molecular structures throughout the universe and in our solar system. .

According to the researcher, this type of astrobiology “has a much less effective publicity machine than UFOlogy.”

Milligan also noted that conspiracies about aliens visiting ancient Earth are causing anthropological problems by overshadowing the mythology of early indigenous people.

“It is increasingly clear that the belief in alien visitation is no longer just an entertaining speculation, but something that has real and harmful consequences.”