This is a great account of the perils of trying to reach statistical conclusions from scans of old astronomical photographic plates, when the noise and artifacts in the data turns out to be very far from uniformly distributed.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-daniel-and-kellys-extraord-29862087/episode/did-aliens-put-satellites-into-earths-338322285/
Greg Egan
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