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Why does Dana Scully not believe in aliens or any of the other weirdness in the x-files? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every week there's a new monster (MOTW) where all the evidence for outsiders disappears, or there's the mythology where the government is covering it up.

I'm a huge skeptic in almost everything, but if I saw what she saw, I would clearly believe. That's plenty of evidence for me, and I'm an actual scientist (well PhD engineer. I definitely did real science in school though)

The shit's clearly real in their universe.

(Sorry, just been watching the first season of the x-files for the past few weeks)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a whole bunch of word salad. (= "this is verbose nonsense")

It's just four paragraphs, and their content is rather clear. TL;DR:

Scully works from the PoV of a RL scientist
Scully has a fraction of the info that viewers do, and that fraction does not include things that would contradict a sceptic explanation
As such there's no reason for Scully to change her worldview to accept aliens and other weirdness

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm glad that you and the other guy are smart enough to know these things, but x-files is not real.

We do not live in the x-files universe. That is a fundamental point of this conversation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

but x-files is not real. // We do not live in the x-files universe.

No shit Sherlock. And his point still stands because Scully is showing the same sort of rationalism that you'd expect from a person in real life, given her background.

And I'm also highlighting that, contrariwise to what you said, his comment is not some "word salad".