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I'm Clyde Lewis.

And this is Ground Zero.

The number is to call tonight 503-2-25-0-860.

It's 503-225-0-860.

Hope you guys had a fine weekend.

Mine was pretty much caught up in, I don't know, some metaphors and some ideas I had.

I've been, you know, the gift that keeps on giving is three-eye Atlas.

I swear every time I go online, I read something about three-eye Atlas, what it's doing, how it's behaving, what's going on.

Still, the speculation is hitting about it being some sort of artificial craft. And, of course, you hear one group of scientists saying, you know, it doesn't hurt us to explore this. It doesn't hurt us to send out a probe. It won't hurt us to do this. We should do it just because we should, you know. But of course, you know, we're still griping about who's going to land on the moon first,

whether it's China, the United States.

Well, we've already landed, but, you know, I don't know how this discussion has gotten there,

but it's gotten there.

But I'm thinking that the crisis in science that undermines research right now is widely

underestimated, largely because irreproducible results, I guess, if that's the word,

irproducible or non-producible results.

There's also the ideological bias we're dealing with, conflicts of interest, and fraud.

I mean, that's what a lot of people talk about, you know, people like you and me.

We talk about how a lot of things right now, if it's, if it's science to benefit politics,

it's definitely the right thing to do, right?

Or, I mean, we don't often recognize the the cumulative impact and shared roots we have when

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