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I had a horrid thought a wee while back that basically revolved around the necessity of checking EVERY input with human-derived first principles, because as soon as computers/etc are involved, observations could conceivably be modified by external forces.It could quite possibly be that every observation we've ever had that didn't come straight through optics and into the human eye could have been modified, rendering much of what we think we know from the past few dozen years garbage/lies.
I then wondered about the extrapolations of this conceit, thinking that perhaps some monastic order of intital proof be set up to check as manually as possible with analogue tools,. which obviously gets a bit complex.
Clearly a bit derived from Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem, ithout the space priests.
Anyway suffice to say, perhaps Voyager's been telling porkies for as long as it's been out there.