Where do scientific ideas come from, and what happens when someone challenges the status quo?

Foundations of Scientific Inquiry

• What counts as evidence? Who gets to decide?
• Where do scientific ideas come from, and how do they evolve over time?
• What is the history of science when people challenge dominant ideas?
• What happens when data doesn’t fit the dominant model?
• What other systems of knowledge are scientific in their own right?
• What other topics have been ridiculed, suppressed, or stigmatized, only to be validated later?

Current Evidence and Investigations

• What physical materials, radar data, and biological specimens have been recovered?
• How have scientists responded to recent whistleblowers, hearings, and government admissions?
• Can we understand UAPs using the current scientific method, or do we need new tools?
• What happens when “unidentified” becomes “unexplainable,” and persists across cultures and time?

Expanding the Framework

• What hypothesis do you hold about UAP?
• What kind of data would challenge or support it?
• How do we interpret evidence when our assumptions are the problem?
• What if science itself is in the midst of a paradigm shift?
• Why does the concept of “junk DNA” still linger, and what might it actually contain?
• What don’t we understand about the fossil record, especially in our oceans?
• Could non-human intelligence exist here already, in forms we’ve ignored or mislabeled?

Looking Ahead

• How do we prepare young scientists to carry forward this inquiry, not with dogma, but with courage, curiosity, and humility?
• How can young scientists be invited into mystery with rigor and imagination?