With around five terabytes of thermal data to evaluate, a complete scientific explanation is going to take some time, but the idea does have a grounding in literary theory.
"You will still have plenty of women who, despite the clearest of explanations, are going to say, 'But I want my mammogram,' " said Dr. Christine Pellegrino, director of the breast clinic at Montefiore-Einstein Center for Cancer Care.
Those explanations are going to be self-serving, but they can be a starting point for analysis and debate.
All we really wanted was an explanation of what was going on.
An arson investigator had been in a number of times and couldn't come up with a rational explanation of what was going on.
Air traffic controllers had no explanation for what was going on.
On Tuesday, the day after President Obama gave his explanation for what was going on with the debt-ceiling crisis, and asked people to contact their congressman, I went with others to the Champaign, Illinois office of Timothy Johnson, my representative.
"Mike always gave the most lucid, detailed, and compelling explanations of what was going on," Peter Rose, who worked with Novogratz in Hong Kong, wrote to me.
The reason why I carried on doing it, even though I wasn't getting any evidence, was the more I learned about parapsychology and critical thinking, the more I started to explore alternative explanations for what was going on.
A week later, however, Ayatollah Khamenei announced without explanation that no one was going anywhere to fight.
