The Rio Scale Is a Good Idea

I think that we have now gotten beyond the little green men kind of reaction from the public. But it took a great deal of time to gain that credibility. And so that's what i fear losing by not being critical enough within the community of what we announce and how we do our science. We've even created something that we call the rio scale to try and help the media and the public understand both the credibility and the importance of any announcement, he says.