Space alien crop circles are science, but ID isn't?

"Government scientists" in Bulgaria are examining crop circles and claiming to talk to space aliens which they think are all around us:

Aliens from outer space are already among us on earth, say Bulgarian government scientists who claim they are already in contact with extraterrestrial life.
They claim aliens are currently answering 30 questions posed to them. Lachezar Filipov, deputy director of the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, confirmed the research.
He said the centre's researchers were analysing 150 crop circles from around the world, which they believe answer the questions.
"Aliens are currently all around us, and are watching us all the time," Mr Filipov told Bulgarian media.

With these clowns communing with crop circles and Richard Dawkins thinking space aliens seeded the Earth with life what calls itself "science" is fast spiralling into a taxpayer-funded comedy circuit. And these are the same people who will flatly insist that examining living creatures and inferring the hand of an external guiding wise Intelligence who is in no way explicitly God somehow doesn't count as real science.
I can remember a time when "science" wasn't laughable and when people wanting to talk to aliens couldn't do it on the taxpayer's dime, and as my father used to say back then "Don't worry your head about that, missy, you just get that laundry sorted". At some point since then something's happened to "science" which most people don't understand, and they're real upset about it.

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