Dr. Martin Abbass

And so potentially this is something that we can look at as a possibility.

clinical group that can respond clinically and not just dismissively.

So yeah I agree with all of that it's absolutely a risk which is why we have to do something about it.

And Andy, in Inspector's work, we have this in the paper, when there is a fundamental challenge to your world paradigm, particularly if that is

maybe even physically challenging, Ernst Becker indicates that people will have an automatic defensive posture and it will re-emphasize potentially their worldview, which may be completely the wrong worldview with a new paradigm shift like this.

So even more, it is important that we cover this in that regard as well.

And we do it with language.

that is not hydrogenically harmful.

So we talk about this shock term.

Obviously, that's where we challenge our worldview.

If we compound that with

our language as doctors you can say oh well you know i liken it to um you know a doctor's like oh you've got cancer of your bowel and you're going to die and this is that versus the way that we're taught which is you know to gently broach the subject warning shots etc and then you know it's it it is obviously something that we can deal we can deal with it's manageable it there's a positive here

You know, there is a very similar theme here when talking about European disclosure and the communication mechanisms that you would need to do, particularly if the governments who've been potentially hiding it are mistrusted or distrusted.

You know, who is our sort of voice then?

that we can believe if it's not government you know nasa or seti are going to be involved with the response okay is that going to be very scientific is it just going to be about well if it's a signal where did the signal come from how strong was it you know people are going to be saying well what who sent it what type of what type of thing was it is it going to try and harm me you know these sorts of um issues may come

up in their minds and how will you respond as a psychiatrist or a psychologist or a doctor or a gp or just a friend that they're asking about how are you going to deal with it and our response has some elements for each and every level you know person to person person to psychologist person psychiatrist and then potentially obviously at the public health level trying to deal with things as well

We haven't worked it all through.

There are some elements of research that we still need to perhaps do.

Obviously, the engagement process, possibly even a scenario, much like Cygnus or Crimson

contagion where we can challenge ourselves as as individual scientists and networks to really address what the gaps might be because it's always cheaper and easier to deal with gaps prior to they occurring uh versus when you're in the thick of it and everyone's scrambling for i don't know ventilators from god knows where you know so let's um let's let's let's be scientific and have our hat our hats on the preparedness and response and doing it in an efficient serious way