„Außergewöhnliche Behauptungen erfordern außergewöhnliche Beweise“ – Ein Astronom erklärt, wie viel Beweismittel Wissenschaftler benötigen, um Entdeckungen wie das außerirdische Leben zu behaupten
https://theconversation.com/extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence-an-astronomer-explains-how-much-evidence-scientists-need-to-claim-discoveries-like-extraterrestrial-life-254914
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There is 1000% extraterrestrial life but it’s so far that we might never detect it or come in contact with it. Earth has certainly been visited by aliens at some point in its LONG history, but there’s nothing here that can’t be found at billions of other earth like planets so they had no interest here. That’s my theory
A good foundational article, although their first criterion is doing a lot of heavy lifting. We’ve gone through a lot of cycles of people *claiming* that a particular marker can only be biological just to have that later disproven (or never thought true in the first place). This is why the third criterion—repeatability—is so important. Never believe a single result, always withhold judgment until it’s corroborated by other teams.
Aliens, bigfoot, telepathy, etc….
These, and other things, will never have enough evidence to be definitively and unequivocally proven. There will always be a legion of people eager to ridicule and dismiss the evidence, regardless of how much there is.
These things will only be proven when they prove themselves. Bigfoot walking onto a national news program, multiple times, and being interviewed (and still people will deny it). Or a UFO hovering over the white house and harmlessly neutralizing all weapons within a mile radius. etc…
Most people who go down the rabbit hole of bigfoot research eventually conclude that it is, in fact, real. Now, watch the deniers ridicule that statement into oblivion and refuse to even consider the mountain of evidence that supports it.
Listen to the Telepathy Tapes…
Etc.
I’ve always been of the belief that with the current level of technology, short of discovering a Dyson sphere, we’ll never be able to actually confirm life until our technology vastly improves. The standard is higher than we can reach.
Its good We’ve got our thinking caps on for this. Wish we’d do it more for superstitions like religion or astrology too.