Well, the US military seems to disagree, but I'm sure you know better. Your Opinion, after all, has drawn itself.
US military are exactly the people I don't want to have anywhere close to this. It is just another way for them to waste money. But it looks like they will be doing it anyway, so there is that. All we have to do is wait until they show us proof of UFOs.
I'm actually more interested in the phenomena on the basic research level. Just like say LHC at Cern, or the International Space Station, there is research I think we should do to just find out things, regardless of whether they lead to useful science. I'm not really interested in the results; I'm really interested in the research. As in, I'd love to be the systems integrator and developer for the camera devices, and work with people who have all sorts of kooky ideas about what the phenomena itself might be. I'm sure the side effects of the research would be more beneficial than the research target itself, as that tends to be the case with this kind of basic research.
Nevertheless, to circle back to the topic at hand, even though we disagree (rather often), and I might dismiss your opinion regarding some particular subject, I will not dismiss your other opinions nor lose respect for you (although it is difficult to exactly define what that respect means; in this context, it just means I will read your posts with positive interest, and do look forward to more). I do not find disagreement necessarily a negative thing at all. (And when the reasons for those opinions are discussed also, I find it a clearly positive thing.)
However, I would bet a beverage of your choice that at minimum one member, and likely more than one, reading this thread have "downgraded" their opinion of my output simply because of the topics I brought up here. Which is kind of my point –– and perhaps also Dave's, I guess. You can disagree, and even consider some opinions completely silly and bonkers, and still positively and mutually beneficially interact with the person. Exclusion is not necessary, and it is not nearly as often useful as people seem to think. It gets ugly and damaging when tribalism aspects creep in.
What one watches at Youtube is a bit more complex, though, because the interaction is often one-way. For myself, there are many completely secondary details that affect me way, way more than the opinions of the presenter. Like the fact that I don't like watching a talking head at all.