Originally Posted by
averow
"The normailization of deviance." This. Exactly this. Shown to be a factor in many disasters, including Challenger. Sober thinking, smart people advised against certain actions and designs, and were shut down by others worried more about short term costs or schedule pressure.
Diane Vaughan coined this phrase in 1996 in her sociological examination of culture and deviance at NASA prior to the Challenger accident, (
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The book is worth having in any flight safety library and is worth reading in the present circumstances, not because "it applies", but because don't know if it does but we need to find out.