question:  Which decision was pivotal in moving the inquiry past the initial plateau?
context: This, be it understood, is fiction—nothing but fiction—and not, under any circumstances, to be considered as having any truth whatever to it. An interview with Dr. I. M. Niemand, Director of the Psychophysical Institute of Solar and Terrestrial Relations, Camarillo, California. In the closing days of December, 1957, at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New York, Dr. Niemand delivered a paper entitled simply, "On the Nature of the Solar S-Regions." Owing to its unassuming title the startling implications contained in the paper were completely overlooked by the press. These implications are discussed here in an exclusive interview with Dr. Niemand by Philip Latham. I suppose you might say my main job today is to find out all I can between activity on the Sun and various forms of activity on the Earth. What do you mean by activity on the Sun? NIEMAND. I'm afraid I can't say just what a sunspot is. It means you can only approximately predict the future course of sunspot activity. There is unquestionably a correlation between sunspots and disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field ... I think our biggest advance was the discovery that sunspots themselves are not the direct cause of the disturbances we have been studying on the Earth. Whereas the real cause is an invisible filterable virus. In the solar case it turned out to be these S-Regions. Why S-Regions? You say an S-Region is invisible? In the Sun? NIEMAND. I suppose the oldest problem in the world is the origin of human evil. Philosophers have wrestled with it ever since the days of Job. Generally they have concluded that man is inherently wicked and sinful and that is the end of it. Well, disputes over boundaries ... economic rivalry ... border incidents.... NIEMAND. Such a syndrome is characteristic of menopausal women and some men during the climacteric, but these people failed to fit into this picture.
output:  Collaborating with Middletown
options:  Rethinking Shakespeare's quote from Julius Caesar  Collaborating with Middletown  Noticing the specific time frames of the attacks  Reaching out to Hillyard