Hoaxers - The Blight On Progress

I was annoyed to read a UFO story (which is patently a hoax) and see the comments below the story made by geeks who slavishly admired the whole project as being such a cool effort especially as a promotional device for some TV show, yada yada.

They should see the bigger picture here and not be such walking fodder for business-minded manipulation. These hoaxers are basically lying to scrabble up publicity for their own profit and in the process of bandwagoning on the backs of the serious efforts of others are cheapening, damaging and chewing into the hard-won but tentative research earned by serious investigators into UFO's like a glutton at a "free lunch" paid for by others.

This is an example of socializing costs and privatizing profits. They've calculated their "techie" audience are roobs enough to just drool over any asinine SF promo, damn the fact it's a kick in the face for real science credibility.

Know that hoaxers have a inherant superiority complex. It's not publicity or admiration they look for. They keep themselves hidden and anonymous. They disdain the "crowd" and so seek to be remote from others but desperately desire to justify and demonstrate their innate higher worth by gaining control as the only ones who know "the truth" while all others are ignorant. Rather than being just "a bit of good fun", a hoaxer's primary, twisted desire is to look down and laugh at us. Which is demonstrated by the fact that after the attention wave is over, they cling on to the lie in grim silence, refusing to self-expose the ruse as the punchline.

No-one thinks making prank calls to the Police is amusing as it wastes important resources and damages the effectiveness of necessary law enforcement. But at least the Police get paid regardless. The time wasted and the ridicule engendeared by idle armchair jokers battering sincerer efforts of other people is just as costly and regressive. So why is there no outcry about the abuse of the resources of UFO investigators? Well... no-one takes UFO researchers seriously... And so we close the loop.