{"id":36060,"date":"2022-05-28T11:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36060"},"modified":"2022-05-28T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:32:55","slug":"and-who-will-be-doing-the-reviewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/05\/28\/and-who-will-be-doing-the-reviewing\/","title":{"rendered":"And Who Will Be Doing The Reviewing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When your assumptions have error bars of greater &gt; 100%. Or even 1000%. Which makes for negative probabilities. Maybe that works, like the mathematical concept of <em>i<\/em>, which is defined as the square root of -1?<\/p>\n<p>Oooops, there I go down the digression path. Here&#8217;s the quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The paper\u2014which hasn&#8217;t been peer-reviewed\u2014is called \u201cEstimating the Prevalence of Malicious Extraterrestrial Civilizations&#8221; and was written by Alberto Caballero, a PhD student in conflict resolution at the University of Vigo in Spain and the author of a separate study published in Cambridge University\u2019s peer-reviewed<em>\u00a0International Journal of Astrobiology<\/em>\u00a0earlier this month that attempted to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/international-journal-of-astrobiology\/article\/an-approximation-to-determine-the-source-of-the-wow-signal\/4C58B6292C73FE8BF04A06C67BAA5B1A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analyze where the famous WOW! Signal originated<\/a>.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/qjbgkm\/there-are-4-malicious-extraterrestrial-civilizations-in-milky-way-researcher-estimates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Vice<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it&#8217;s just gotta be asked &#8211; are these peers going to be representatives of the <em>Malicious Extraterrestrial Civilizations<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>How did the editor contact them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your assumptions have error bars of greater &gt; 100%. Or even 1000%. Which makes for negative probabilities. Maybe that works, like the mathematical concept of i, which is defined as the square root of -1? Oooops, there I go down the digression path. Here&#8217;s the quote: The paper\u2014which hasn&#8217;t \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/05\/28\/and-who-will-be-doing-the-reviewing\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36061,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36060\/revisions\/36061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}