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Livescience releases a misleading article on Dr. Villarroel's transient UFO study pretending that the "plate defect" explanation wasn't already ruled out by the peer reviewed study. Dr. Villarroel says "This kind of selective presentation feeds stigma instead of informing readers".
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Livescience releases a misleading article on Dr. Villarroel’s transient UFO study pretending that the “plate defect” explanation wasn’t already ruled out by the peer reviewed study. Dr. Villarroel says “This kind of selective presentation feeds stigma instead of informing readers”.


Livescience releases a misleading article on Dr. Villarroel’s transient UFO study pretending that the “plate defect” explanation wasn’t already ruled out by the peer reviewed study. Dr. Villarroel says “This kind of selective presentation feeds stigma instead of informing readers”.

by TommyShelbyPFB

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  2. TommyShelbyPFB on

    Dr. Villarroel says she literally spoke with this journalist at length about how the “plate defect” theory was already ruled out in the [peer reviewed study](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3) by the Earth shadow result, but Livescience chose to omit that entirely and pretend there is debate among scientists on the results.

    Apparently when the results favor an exotic explanation, these mainstream experts would rather pretend they can’t read.

  3. bocley on

    This is precisely the kind of thing that explains why ‘mainstream science’ is coming to be viewed suspiciously by an increasing number of people.

    LIve Science should print a correction. If they don’t, they will lose their credibility.