Largely ignored in the 1908's because 'we already know everything and it can't be viruses, etc'... Yorio Hinuma or Kiyoshi Takatsuki, the prominent Japanese scientists who, alongside molecular biologist Mitsuaki Yoshida, proved in the early 1980s that a human cancer could be caused by a virus. The Context of Widespread Skepticism Throughout the 1970s, the international scientific community was highly skeptical of the idea that virusesâ"specifically retrovirusesâ"could cause cancer in humans. Decades of searching had yielded nothing but false alarms and contamination from animal viruses, leading most mainstream oncologists to dismiss or completely ignore the "viral theory" of human cancer. The Breakthrough â Kiyoshi Takatsuki: In 1977, he first clinically identified Adult T-cell Leukemia (ATL). Because the cases were heavily clustered in southwestern Japan, he stubbornly suspected an infectious, viral origin. â Yorio Hinuma: In 1981, working against prevailing doubts, Hinuma successfully isolated virus particles from an ATL cell line under an electron microscope. â Mitsuaki Yoshida: Shortly after, Yoshida's team mapped out the virus's structure, proving it seamlessly integrated into the DNA of the cancer cells. Their independent findings (matching work by Robert Gallo in the U.S. with HTLV-1) finally forced the global medical establishment to accept that certain human viruses directly trigger cancer. Today, it is well established that infections trigger roughly 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide

Can't wait for the near-term future when everything is under siege this way. "You didn't actually own the money in your back account, we just granted you the temporary privilege of accessing it occasionally so that we could confiscate later it at our convenience'. 'The name you were given at birth was just a loan under our trademarking umbrella. Your identity has been revoked." So much winning!

I am surprised not to see Sci Hub and Alexandra Elbakyan mentioned here, as she seems to have inherited his mission and, to some degree, accomplished it.

It's clear that the general consensus of those posting is that there's no there there. It's also clear that some 100,000 reports have occurred since 1950 (google Bard). If we dismiss 99% of them as explicable, that still leaves 1000 reports. There are a vast range of reports from police and military witnesses. Clearly, whatever it may be that is at issue is a complex phenomena not merely reducible to 'spaceships from elsewhere'. It is also clear that around 3% of reports include the appearance of beings of some kind. There are historical documents that mention similar phenomena over a vast span of time. It is clear that there is a 'there' there; what we know of the world and universe is clearly less than 1% of what is accessible to human knowledge. It's completely reasonable to have a high standard of proof, it's also reasonable to speculate about the phenomena and actually talk to people who have experienced something related to it. As regards the AARO, I listened to the recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the AARO. Three senators and the head of the AARO were there. Not exactly a crowd. It was made clear that the AARO has not received sufficient funding to do... much of anything at all. The office is 9 months old and has had to fight to get enough funds to simply operate. Dr. Kirkpatric was at pains to declare that their standard operating procedure is to dismiss everything they can, and anything they can't can be excused as 'not enough data'. His attitude was basically scientific, and he was extremely prejudiced against the idea that anything inexplicable has been or will be going on. It is not in any way clear that the Pentagon and other military branches of the USG are including the AARO in anything. It appears that there's no actual mandate that would require anything being reported to the AARO. So I don't think they're likely to be included in anything that might be classified, if and when they are included in anything at all.