In the arsenal of eternal skeptics there are few tools more dramatically and more commonly used than Ockham’s razor. It is triumphantly applied to resolve arguments about ghosts (more parsimoniously… Read the rest of the article: What Ockham really said

You may think of yourself as a user of Google, Facebook or Amazon, but you are actually their product. Sure, Google will provide you with search results, but they are… Read the rest of the article: Jacques Vallee's Stating The Obvious: I, Product

"empty home on Bloomington Ave S, Minneapolis" by Andrew Ciscel via CC OK, so I'm not an economist. But as a venture investor in early-stage medical and technology companies I… Read the rest of the article: Stating the Obvious : If you don't have a house you don't need no sofa

Based on the three earlier posts I have made on this subject, an objective reader might be justified to conclude either that crop circles are the product of hoaxes or… Read the rest of the article: Jacques Vallee: Of Crop Circles, meme wars and web-based flypaper

Greenpeace's GM Crop Circle from Circlemakers.org In an earlier post I reviewed some possible explanations for the crop circle phenomenon, and I noted the various theories left several issues unanswered:… Read the rest of the article: Of Flattened Flora and Expulsion Cavities: The crop circle controversy continues

My previous post about crop circles could be considered, among other things, as a social science test of the role of belief systems in the manipulation of memes and factual… Read the rest of the article: Crop Circles, Part Deux: Alien Glyphs, Human Myths, Blogging Bliss

Jacques Vallee is a computer scientist, partner in a venture capital firm, and author of more than 20 books, including Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers, The Invisible… Read the rest of the article: In Search of Alien Glyphs (or are they microwave blasters?)

Jacques Vallee is a computer scientist, partner in a venture capital firm, and author of more than 20 books, including Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers, The Invisible… Read the rest of the article: Polanski and Kubrick: Two occult tales

Jacques Vallee is a computer scientist, partner in a venture capital firm, and author of more than 20 books, including Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers, The Invisible… Read the rest of the article: Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries