“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 ...

Thomas Schares, MD, MBA, an anesthesiologist with Somnia Anesthesia who serves as chief of anesthesiology for Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif., discusses the phenomenon known as ...

As an aerospace student at Florida Tech in 1986, Mike Ciannilli had a hard decision to make: go see the launch of the space shuttle Challenger or take his physics exam which was happening at the same ...

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] ...