Damon Hill wrote:

Conventional knowledge is always wrong; the kook is always right.

begin 1986, after Challenger explosion

DR. LITTLES: Well, I for one, and I'm not an expert and that is why I
asked my experts to go off and put together a story and come convince
me, because when I look at the black and white photographs I, with an
untrained eye admittedly, can see what I think is white smoke emanating
from near that leak check port.

DR. FEYNMAN: Might I suggest that on a thing like this the idea of an
expert and an untrained eye as compared to a trained eye is a myth.
There is no training for this particular kind of observation about leak
check ports on a particular booster.

DR. LITTLES: Yes, sir, I tend to agree with that. By "expert" I was
referring to people that we have who routinely, every flight, look at
all the photographs and become very competent in looking at these kind
of deviants.

DR. FEYNMAN: When you get curious, you can do it yourself and make up
your own mind.

end 1986, after Challenger explosion

begin 2005, after Discovery launch

WAYNE HALE: I talked with two senior members of the Photo Imagery
Group.

WAYNE HALE: You have to have some experience and knowledge in order to
interpret the photography.

WAYNE HALE: The guys are going over that *frame by frame*!

WAYNE HALE: We're waitin' for the experts to come back and tell us.

end 2005, after Discovery launch

Bottom line? Full circle at NASA, and even here!

Challenger's Ghost