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The search for extraterrestrial life is not held to a higher standard of scientific rigour, but it is constrained by an inability to independently detect and attribute multiple lines of evidence.

The search for extraterrestrial life is not held to a higher standard of scientific rigour, but it is constrained by an inability to independently detect and attribute multiple lines of evidence.