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Paradi / Signal Before Story: Why Verification Comes First
The temptation after a strange event is to rush to interpretation. The discipline is to prove the event survives contact with better analysis.
Blog / April 18, 2026
Signal Before Story: Why Verification Comes First
The temptation after a strange event is to rush to interpretation. The discipline is to prove the event survives contact with better analysis.
Paradi Research Desk6 min read
SETIverificationfalse positives
Candidates are supposed to be fragile
A field that looks for rare signals in noisy systems should expect intriguing false alarms. The Proxima candidate did not embarrass SETI; the careful rejection process is what made the field look serious.
Independent confirmation is not optional
A future detection worth acting on should survive off-target checks, interference testing, repeat observations, and cross-facility scrutiny. Anything less is still in the maybe pile.
Story comes last
Meaning, intention, and civilization-scale implications all come after the basic physical question of whether the signal is really there and really non-local. This order matters.