“When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term ‘the normalization of deviance,’ she was referring to NASA administrators’ disregard of the flaw that caused the Challenger space shuttle to ...

Normalization of deviance is the process by which individuals and organizations gradually accept substandard practices, rationalizing them until they become the new, dangerous norm and increase the ...

A letter to the editor compares the Jeffrey Epstein affair to the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The author argues that Epstein's criminality was ignored for decades, similar to how a known O ...

The normalization of deviance was discussed often at the Spring to Proficiency 2024 IFR Clinic put on by Community Aviation at the EAA Pilot Proficiency Center in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. [Shutterstock] ...