Good morning.
One of the UFO podcasts I was listening to referred to everyone who took secrecy oaths as “hostages”.
We are talking about millions of people with some form of classification.
It is a huge drag on scientific and many other endeavors—a gridlock of compartmentalization—almost impossible to unravel.
Imagine joining together with neighbors to build a house and only one person is allowed to see a hammer, one other person is allowed to see the nails, and only one other person is allowed to see the lumber—because we don’t want anybody from the town next door to learn the secret of building a house.
Imagine everyone having to wear blindfolds until they enter the room of the house they are working on—and having to wear blindfolds when they leave the house as well.
I think that is a very accurate and insightful statement.
In addition to the harm caused by compartmentalization and secrecy in science, the field has also been deeply compromised by politics.
Politicians and university endowment boards often fund only those scientists who align with pre-existing theories, demanding confirmation over discovery. This undermines the pursuit of truth, which should be the core mission of science.
The scientific method demands objectivity, yet when research is driven by the goal of proving a specific outcome, confirmation bias inevitably skews the results.
As Eric Weinstein aptly noted, "Science in America is dead. Politics has killed it."