Pegajace

Let’s suppose the artist had publicly stated their beliefs that certain minority groups should be erased from public life, and was actively using their art profits to fund those goals.

What if someone paid the artist money for it and hung it in their living room and sang its praises to their friends & family after they found out about the artist’s beliefs, goals, and actions?

An assumption of 99% false sightings is not a statistic. Statistics are analyses of measured data, not assumptions. To know the actual percentage of true sightings, you’d first have to confirm that some sightings are actually true, which would require some actual evidence of ghosts/aliens.

Consider the inverse for a moment: if ghosts/aliens don’t actually exist, then the percentage of false sightings must be 100%, not 99.9%. As long as you start with the assumption that there are some true sightings, you’re just starting with the assumption that ghosts/aliens are real.