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“…
perception in an announcement
is immediately proportional to the amount during which it’s transmitted and the
variety of instances it’s repeated, not the precise details.”
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Carl Sagan popularized the maxim that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” This recommendation shouldn’t be optionally available for coverage makers. In right this moment’s world of misinformation, conspiracy pushed decision-making and sensationalist-dominated governance, |
By Sean Kirkpatrick |
our capability for rational, evidence-based essential pondering is eroding, with
deleterious penalties for our skill to successfully cope with multiplying
challenges of ever rising complexity.
As director of the Division of Protection’s All-Area Anomaly Decision
Workplace (AARO), charged by Congress in 2022 to assist convey science-based readability
and determination to the long-standing thriller surrounding credible observations
of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), also called UFOs, I skilled
this erosion up shut and private. And it was one consider my choice to
step down from my place final December. After painstakingly assembling a
workforce of extremely proficient and motivated personnel and dealing with them to
develop a rational, systematic and science-based technique to research these
phenomena, our efforts had been in the end overwhelmed by sensational however
unsupported claims that ignored contradictory proof but captured the
consideration of coverage makers and the general public, driving legislative battles and
dominating the general public narrative.
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