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very hard to bring in the absolute best scientists in the world to study it, depending on what the evidence is like. And I don’t doubt that there would be a lot of cooperation from the scientific community. I don’t think that scientists are prejudiced to begin with. Prejudice means pre-judging. They’re post-judice. After examining the evidence they decide there’s nothing to it. There’s a big difference between prejudice and post- judice. to The late Carl Sagan, an astronomer at Cornell University and a Pulitzer-Prize- winning author, is best known as the author and host of Cosmos and the author of Contact. He died in 1996, just before the film version of Contact was released. 45