Shifting Confidence: How Evidence and Uncertainty Shape Astrobiologists’ Views on K2-18b and Mars (Cheyava Falls)
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Expert opinions on potential life signals are nuanced and slowly evolving, illustrated by Amanda Smith and Nikku Madhusudhan’s imagery of K2-18b and Cheyava Falls, and Durham’s C‑Scope project shows how scientists’ views are distributed and revised as evidence changes, highlighting that simple consensus claims in climate, pandemics, AI, and medicine miss important uncertainty.
