Adam Frank
@AdamFrank4 · University of Rochester · joined 15 Aug 2011
Astrophysicist. Author of the Everyman's Universe newsletter and The Little Book of Aliens. Stuff shows up at The Atlantic, NYT, etc
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I am VERY excited to be joining the world's largest ideas and music festival in London this September 19th-20th! I'll be appearing alongside @MazzucatoM, @skdh, @NicolaSturgeon, @jimmy_wales, @bryan_johnson, @Jeremy_Hunt and many others!
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1) Will, why is an opinion needed? Is it so people can be happy if I give the answer they want? Is it so people can be outraged if I give the answer they don’t? I do my best to stay away from the culture war stuff. I’m just not interested.
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1/ I appreciate you putting it that way. The fact that I am put in a position of having to defend myself becuase I had the audacity to report on a critique of the VASCO project is offensive to say the least. It also illustrates exactly the problem I discussed in the piece.
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I agree with most of what you said regarding the ufo community and the epistemoloical papers vs papers friction. But this is not the question asked by Dr. Villarroel. She states:
"Since then, there has been a “community effort,” centered around you, Jason Wright, and your
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Adam, it's disappointing to see you continuing to dodge any comment on @DrBeaVillarroel being blacklisted from workshops because of her collaborations. This isn't a meme, and ad hominem, or an empty accusation. They literally call themselves "The Order of the Octopus". https://t.
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9/ Going to move on today to other fun science topics like Category Theory and the Physics of Life so done with this for now. I'm sure the scientific story is not over which is how it should be.
May all find happiness and the causes of happiness.
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8/ Finally, not that anyone is going to listen, but I am think there SHOULD be UAP science.
That’s why I was excited when @DrBeaVillarroel papers came out. But UAP science must get evaluated like all science always does. Hence the importance of the Watters’ papers too.
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7/ The bigger your claims, the bigger the reaction is going to be. How can anyone expect otherwise?
Because the Vasco 2025 papers made news, the Watters’ 2026 rebuttal will also makes news.
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6/ Here is the thing. Science is like boxing. When you publish a paper, you step into the ring. Your opponent = the rest of the scientific community and from that point on all that matters are the data and the equations.
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5/ "So the UAP/UFO community needs to ask itself a difficult question. Does it want the subject to be part of the scientific process — where beliefs get legitimately challenged — or do they just hold to their beliefs? There is a word for the second option. It’s called religion.”
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4/ "Online and elsewhere, it can get so unpleasant that at some point, a scientist might ask, “Why bother?” Everyone has interesting, fun research projects. Why spend time on this?"
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3/ Of course all the hatin’ just proves the points I was making in the second half of the piece.
"When, scientists find fault with UAP/UFO data — as is with the Watters study — they are attacked as “part of the problem” or “government shills.”
https://t.co/lidZ3m7JS1
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2/ Important point : none of it addressed the real issue. Is the Vasco dataset uniformly random in distribution.
That, among other points in Watters et al raise is all that matters.
If they are right, then no statistically significant claim about “transients” can be made.
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1/ So, I come back on Monday morning to see the haters been a hating: AI memes, accusations, Ad hominem arguments.
So first off, people, it was the weekend for God’s Sake. Go out. Take a walk. Get off Social Media for a bit (it’s bad for your mental health).
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@AdamFrank4 @bigthink Adam, I am buying it literally and figuratively from you. Back at you with my 6 volume, 21 book series on Biomimicry. https://t.co/pCyyYVroQl
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@AdamFrank4 @bigthink By treating UFOs as cultural quirks until “perfect” data arrives, Frank’s stance risks becoming a polite echo of Inquisition 2.0, guarding the gates while the evidence slips by in plain sight. https://t.co/LjF9ZHuLp9
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@AdamFrank4 @bigthink I have to say how much I enjoyed your book, "The Little Book of Aliens." It was a treat to read and very informative. I highly recommend it.
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And its done! The Little Book of Aliens.
Everything you need to know about everything there is to know about life in the Universe (out there and, you know, maybe but probably not, here).
This week's @bigthink post
#Arewealone
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Against accounts of the same size
16 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.
Median views846this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %3.98%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.18%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 846 | 924 | 0.92× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.98% | 3.62% | 1.10× |
| Engagement rate | 1.18% | 1.52% | 0.78× |
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Growth & engagement
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Likes66.0%378 in total
Reposts8.4%48 in total
Replies16.6%95 in total
Quotes1.6%9 in total
Bookmarks7.5%43 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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