Ok… it’s safe to say that UFOs have little to do with the subjects of weight loss, exercise, nutrition or supplements. Nonetheless, I have two reasons for posting this video:<\/p>\n
1. I thought it was amusing.<\/p>\n
2. Dr. Tyson makes an important point about the nature of anecdotal evidence, and why scientists find it less than compelling.\u00a0From this perspective,\u00a0it doesn’t matter whether it’s claims for alien visitations\/abductions… or\u00a0testimonials for miracle weight loss supps, superfruits or detox products. As Carl Sagan once quipped, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence<\/a>“… and when none is forthcoming, it pays to be skeptical.<\/p>\n [youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zfAzaDyae-k]<\/p>\n Have a safe and happy 4th o’ July!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok… it’s safe to say that UFOs have little to do with the subjects of weight loss, exercise, nutrition or supplements. Nonetheless, I have two reasons for posting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,28],"tags":[472,1708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}