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Cora Alice Du Bois

Cora Alice Du Bois

American anthropologistWikipedia

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Oct 11, 2026

John RhodesGUEST
48:04
Uh, there's an econ- there's an effect on society.
John RhodesGUEST
48:08
Okay, Cora DuBois was the anthropologist on the Brookings Report, uh, Institute report where it talks about the effects of contact with, uh, open society, open extraterrestrial contact.
John RhodesGUEST
48:19
And she said it would, the greatest group that it would affect was the, um, the, um, the, uh, science and engineering fields because they would feel with a more advanced civilization having contact that all of, that it would, it would stifle all research because they would come to a stop thinking that, "Why should we research anymore when we can just ask these guys?" And that, and when you find out about Cora, um, look more into her background, you would think that this isn't just an anthropologist, which she was, but she was a special anthropologist.
John RhodesGUEST
48:53
During World War II, she headed up operations in Southeast Asia for the OSI, and then afterwards she ran, uh, uh, uh, um, um, s- special intelligence operations for the intelligence agencies.
John RhodesGUEST
51:40
Uh, there's an inc- there's an effect on society.
John RhodesGUEST
51:43
Okay, Cora DuBois was the anthropologist on the Brookings Report, uh, Institute report where it talks about the effects of contact with, uh, open society, open extraterrestrial contact.
John RhodesGUEST
51:55
And she said it would, the greatest group that it would affect was the, um, the, um, the, uh, science and engineering fields because they would feel with a more advanced civilization having contact that all of, uh, that it would, it would stifle all research because they would come to a stop thinking that, "Why should we research anymore when we can just ask these guys?" And that, and when you find out about Cora, um, look more into her background, you would think that this isn't just an anthropologist, which she was, but she was a special anthropologist.
John RhodesGUEST
52:29
During World War II, she headed up operations in Southeast Asia for the OSI.

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