{"id":83852,"date":"2026-06-22T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83852"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:20:09","slug":"skeptic-on-uap-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/skeptic-on-uap-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeptic On UAP Panel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>NewsNation:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new UAP advisory panel\u2019s inclusion of a devil\u2019s advocate could strengthen the group\u2019s mission, investigative journalist Ross Coulthart says, but he has some reservations about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/article\/michael-shermer-named-to-white-house-uap-science-advisory-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/article\/michael-shermer-named-to-white-house-uap-science-advisory-council\/\">Michael Shermer<\/a>, the skeptic who has been tapped.<\/p>\n<p>Coulthart suggests Shermer, founder of The Skeptics Society, may be too skewed against the topic. He cited \u201cpejorative\u201d comments Shermer has made about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/newsnation\/newsnation-special-footage-ufo-whistleblowe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/newsnation\/newsnation-special-footage-ufo-whistleblowe\/\">David Grusch<\/a>, the UAP whistleblower who told members of Congress the government has a secret program to retrieve alien technology.\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any harm in having a skeptic, so long as they are a skeptic and not a debunker,\u201d Coulthart told \u201cNewsNation Prime\u201d on Saturday. \u201cSkepticism is good. We need skepticism. It\u2019s important that we\u2019re skeptical.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NewsNation: A new UAP advisory panel\u2019s inclusion of a devil\u2019s advocate could strengthen the group\u2019s mission, investigative journalist Ross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83853,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83852\/revisions\/83853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}