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Dr Beatriz Villarroel (astronomer behind the VASCO findings) asks SETI scientists to explain her alleged exclusion from the field

Dr Beatriz Villarroel has made a detailed post on X asking astrophysicist Adam Frank to clarify what role, if any, he played in her exclusion from parts of the SETI community. She shared a 2021 letter withdrawing her presentation from a Penn State–associated SETI conference because the research involved Geoff Marcy. Villarroel says the relevant part of the conference’s code of conduct appeared to have been written specifically to prevent her from presenting. She says this was followed by a wi...