I wasn’t questioning you or your background, mainly making a point about many people who retweet this thinking that it proves something about scientists. Neil obviously writes tweets like this to appeal to the general public, as if he’s outwitting people with his background in...
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As the comment on your own thread said, you separated scientists and social scientists as though they are different. Using the scientific method makes you a scientist. Period. Also, your attempted point is lacking in data or any background investigation which makes it oddly
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Unscientific. Perhaps you have some demographic (gasp social science!) Or psychological modeling data from crawling twitter retweets to back up your argument?
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As I explained before, not attaching natural to scientists as a specifier was simply to help with character limits. Also, neither point (of natural or social scientists being uneducated in each other’s field) has well-supported evidence to back it up. I’m also well aware that...
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such data would come from social science studies. I’m not intending to devalue the social sciences, I just think that Emily’s tweet may lead to unfair characterization of scientists that she may not have intended.
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The logic issue I see is that you were addressing Tyson specifically, not all scientists.
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Let's rephrase Neils tweet to provide some context to the galaxy brains scientists up in here. "Even if Humanity commits a holocaust of the entire biosphere, killing off trillions of lifeforms including most human life, the Earth will be fine in a few million years"
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its a pointless thing to say and shouldnt really comfort people, science megabrains included. Even if it's true the Earth will be fine and its just US and EVERYTHING we care about that will die. Like, that still means WE and EVERYTHING we care about dies... no consolation there
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