Why We Should Have No High Confidence in Astronomy Professors Estimating the Number of Extraterrestrial Civilizations

Source	https://futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2026/10/why-we-should-have-no-high-confidence.html
Author	Mark Mahin
Published	Yesterday, 12:00 PM
Summary	Nowadays academia professors tend to be people with limited knowledge concentrated in one particular field. It is a mistake to assume that people who have concentrated their studies in one narrow area are knowledgeable about many related topics. For example, a professor of medieval history may have little knowledge of modern history. Google Gemini infographic on scientist overspecializationPeople often make the mistake of assuming that some very complex question involving many fields of knowledg
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