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In reply to the discussion: Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin [View all]Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)I don't know what the next spin of the roulette wheel will be, but I can tell you that over time what the results of a large number of spins will be. I can also tell you that the result will not and cannot be higher than 36 (in the US).
Unfortunately, there is a lot which we do know, and in one lifetime, no person is capable of obtaining mastery over everything we already know. Despite that fact, there are a lot of people who don't know much, but who use the "we don't know everything" line as some kind of equalizer in order to make up for ignorance of things that we really do know.
This is not a harmless affectation either, but it does material harm to gullible people who get taken in by all sorts of scams - particularly in the area of treatment of diseases where "we don't know everything" is used as a proxy for "why not believe anything" with tragic results to people's health and wealth.
Scientology makes a fooking fortune out of the most pathetically stupid UFO tale which otherwise normal, rational people get suckered into believing.