S. Patrick Feeney
A common misconception about science is that scientists come together and vote in order to come to a consensus through some sort of democratic system. With one exception - the International Astronomical Union’s academic vote on Pluto’s planetary status - this is patently untrue.Science is about objective results that can be reproduced when the same rigorous methods are applied under the same conditions by unrelated third parties. It also encompasses the discovery of new phenomena and species and their behavioral patterns through direct observation, the postulation of hypotheses and theories to account for these behaviors, and experiments to test these hypotheses. Personal belief systems and consensus votes have no place here.
It is with this definition of science in mind that the Anomaly Response Network has attempted to bring together the world's foremost volunteer researchers to investigate the phenomena that science has yet to be able to thoroughly explain. I encourage you to keep an open mind as you review our incoming reports of anomalies and learn from our observational and investigative methods.
