"We see this sort of thing not infrequently. 'Wait, all of those people are angry at us. We’d better retract this paper and blame the author for slipping one by us'.” If cancel culture had been a thing in Darwin's time, would Origin of Species ever have seen print?https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1255839455241527296 …
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I think it's a failure to grasp the importance of what we learned at school tbh, a refusal to implement it. Your maths teacher didn't just tell you Pythagoras' equation, right? He proved it to you, walking thro the Proof, right?
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I've no idea how old I was when I learned about Galileo, but it was before I learned Pythagoras Lesson. "Prove it!" Mibbes I'm just a cheeky wee shite, but I've been "Prove it, show me!" since before I went to school
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