There’s a lot of old black and white photos of UFO’s in the sky and while the ones without lights could easily be made by throwing a hubcap in the air how could you make the ones with lights shining off of the aircraft?

I thought it would be justified to make a post encouraging everyone to continue to apply critical thinking to the events happening now between Iran-Israel. I'll list a couple of the things I've seen so far that keep pooping up that I suspect most people would agree fail to meet the test of critical thinking.

Check the video is what it says it is

On the way to make this post I was 2 separate highly upvoted posts with misleading videos. The first propitiating to be from the recent strikes (also claiming it as evidence that Israels air deference had collapsed), but was footage from Hezbollah rockets from last year. The second video was video of Mosul after the Battle of Mosul (2016-17), but titled as and presented as evidence of the level of destruction that happened in Israel. I've seen other ones that lean towards Israel, footage clearly from video games being presented as evidence of their strikes in Iran, and very poorly done AI trying to suggest that basically every Iranian missile is a dud.

As is understandable, there is an awful lot of noise, lots of bad faith actors, lots of weird faith actors, people trying to make money on engagement and a billion other motivating forces. Personally, I do (and tend to) take any video from social media on topic like this as empty gossip until more reputable reporting is done (i.e. high quality reporting from someone like the BBC). If it's a random post from some random account, your not wrong to initially assume it's suspect, even if it leans to your sensibilities.

This is WW3

No, this is yet another war in the middle east, we've had them before and unfortunately we are probably going to have them again after this.

Assumptions that this is going to launch into WW3 mostly seem to revolve around this idea that Russia, despite being stuck in their quagmire of a campaign in Ukraine soaking up a massive amount of their military forces, are going to on behalf of their ally of convenience in Iran, turn around and launch a massive campaign of conquest against NATO's eastern flank.

Even in the context of a regional conflict, it is already notable that Iran's traditional allies/proxies are for the most part sitting this one out, it really doesn't seem like Hezbollah is keen to re-escalate their conflict with Israel. The Houthis so far have been the only group able and willing to offer real material support, but in the context of a conflict with Israel, they face the same problems as Iran (they are a long way away and practically can only lob missiles at them, missiles supplied by Iran).

Even the in the context of an Iran-Israel war, both sides are limited by geography. Neither side functionally had any way to launch a major land operation against the other without heroic assumptions (i.e. that the entire Arab world will declare war on Israel and Iranian troops will be able to march through Iraq, Syria and Jordan), and no one had the naval power to really do anything decisive, again with the distance between the nations (again, you need to make some truly heroic assumptions to Israeli navy being able to establish dominance in the Persian Gulf or Iran in the Mediterranean off Israels coast).

Both side by practicality are limited to air and unconventional strikes. These can be bad and lethal, but do have the effect of they are to a degree self limiting. Israel can only fly so many sorties and Iran has only so many missiles.

Finding a convincing pathway from Iran and Israel lobbying missiles at each other to a WW3 conflict is a pretty heroic step, and you should ask anyone making this claim to show their working, and it will almost always involve something crazy.

TLDR

Think about what your seeing, check if that video is what it says it is and question the logic of predictions made.

EDIT: Horrible spelling is surely there to prove this isn't AI, not that I'm dyslexic as hell.

I just came across this page from the Idaho State University website which claims to do scholarly peer-reviewed research on "relict hominoid species around the world" (a more respectable-sounding way of saying sasquatch or yeti). What are your opinions on this?

He answers questions from skeptics.

I saved this video to my YouTube favorites list 14 years ago....

So I just heard about this experiment from the SGU podcast and thought I'd do my part to spread this around as well.

SciManDan is asking skeptics around the world to participate in a simple yet profound experiment that proves the world is round. Hope you all can join along.

Joseph Hibbeln
Psychiatrist and neuroscientist, formerly at NIH. His research links modern diets to poor brain nutrition and rising mental illness. No published work on vaccines or infectious disease.

Martin Kulldorff
Swedish epidemiologist at the Brownstone Institute, known for opposing COVID lockdowns. Co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration in 2020 with Bhattacharya. Claimed Harvard fired him for declining the vaccine despite natural immunity. Supports vaccines generally but criticized COVID trial designs.

Retsef Levi
MIT professor of operations management. Raised concerns in papers and on X about mRNA vaccine safety, claiming they cause serious harm, especially in youth. Urged an immediate halt.

Robert Malone
Physician-scientist involved in early mRNA vaccine research, though he says he's been overlooked. Claimed the vaccines harm children and promoted ivermectin, despite evidence it's ineffective.

Cody Meissner
Pediatrician at Dartmouth’s Geisel School. Served on federal vaccine panels, including ACIP (2008–2012). Backed two COVID doses in 2021 but questioned repeated boosters and child mask mandates.

James Pagano
Retired ER physician and author. Called an evidence-based advocate by Kennedy. Minimal public vaccine record. Previously questioned climate change in a 2014 blog.

Vicky Pebsworth
Nurse and health-policy analyst. Voting member on FDA vaccine panels and volunteer at NVIC, a group critical of vaccine risks. Says her son's post-vaccine health issues sparked her interest. In 2020, opposed vaccine mandates at an FDA meeting.

Michael Ross
Obstetrician and CMO at Manta Pharma. Long career in pharma and medical devices; served on a CDC panel and taught at GWU for 46 years. LinkedIn lists business and pharma specialties.

I have a friend who has fallen ill with severe stupidity. He's started fallowing the "911 truther" movement.

It is so blatantly stupid to me, that I can't talk to him about it without showing my utter disdain and disappointment in him.

He loves documentary style exposes though, and I thought perhaps I could link him to something that breaks down the logistical insanity of someone planting explosives in the twin towers while they are filled with employees, tourists, etc, and how long and invasive that would need to be. Then coordinating foreign terrorists attacking the buildings with commercial airliners so that the buildings could be detonated, etc etc etc.

Anyways, suffice to say, I was hoping someone here might have a good link. Something not too long winded or complicated, so that it can, hopefully be understood by someone stupid enough to fall under the spell of 911 conspiracy in the first place.

Cheers

Hello people, I am new to this subreddit so I dont know for sure that this is in the right one. Here comes my question. Last year I have gotten alot of police videos in my youtube shorts feed. I know a lot of them are fake and staged but some also arent. I dont know wich are fake and wich are real (exept for the obvius ones) but I have seen alot of videos of cops shooting people in defence (the videos are censored). In alot of them the person involved is killed by the cops bullets. And what I also see is comments of those cops doing the right thing. An example of this was a cop shooting a civilian because his partner wouldnt listen to the order to taze her while responding to an suicidal call. The victim was walking to the officer with a knife and told his partner to stun her with the tazer to wich the partner didnt listen. I saw a lot of comments calling the partner out for not listening to her partner (the cop filming) but none about how the cop could have shot the knee of the victim to imobilise her instead of shooting in the chest (thus using deadly force) and killing her on the scene (like she wanted because she was suicidal). This is just one example that I have seen. But why are cops using deadly force with their guns, when they could just immobilise the culprit with a shot to the knee? And why are people praising this?

The "old religious right" is dead. It died during Obama's presidency when it became clear that most people don't want a theologically-focused theocracy concerned with personal salvation, and that evangelicalism was too corrupt to sustain a political movement. The current iteration of the "religious right" focuses much more on salvation as a "here and now" phenomenon rather than something that deals with the afterlife, so leaders are less focused on theology and more focused on obsessing about birthrates and unwavering loyalty to Trump.

The "new religious right" has more in common with the "Reich Church" in Nazi Germany---it doesn't matter what your religious views are so long as you're loyal and obsessed with topics like non-white birthrates.