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The Yeti of Modern Science

A silhouetted unicorn rearing in front of a full moon against a cloudy night sky.

Reinhold Messner saw a creature in the Himalayan dusk and paid for it with decades of ridicule. Today, whole institutions are selling Yetis of their own—models they won’t open, predictions they won’t defend, and fears they won’t verify. The difference? Messner harmed only his reputation. Our modern oracles threaten the foundations we live on.