Be careful about what you believe. Don't trust someone because they are 'an expert' or 'well respected.' There will always be other 'experts' and 'well respected' people who disagree with them. Make your own judgments based on your own observations.
David Goodstein's, in his book On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Frontlines of Science from Princeton University Press, has written about some examples of unreliable 'experts' making unfounded or deliberately deceptive scientific claims.
Problems caused by unreliable 'experts,' people who treat them as reliable, and people who observe for themselves and make their own judgments can provide many possibilities for cinema and fiction.
A 2025 reanalysis of the original Wow! signal found it was even stronger
than astronomers had thought. One new explanation is extraordinary: a flare
from a magnetar may have struck a cold cloud of hydrogen in deep space,
causing it to blaze briefly at the hydrogen radio frequency — an
astronomical event that may never have been recorded before.
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[image: A large radio telescope dish beneath a dark, star-filled sky]
Recovered Big Ear calibration records make the 1977 Wow! signal brighter
and better l...
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