I’m becoming more aware of this (and therefore concerned about it). Who else can I follow/read? Who else is sounding the alarm?
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Most recently I’ve been listening to Eric Weinstein, who calls attention to at least one aspect of the problem: academic consensus and the stifling of independent thought.
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Just as certain Buddhist teachings aren't available to people until after transmission, I think "science is broken" is a message that should be carefully deployed so you don't empower quack doctors, vaccine/climate/etc denialism, and other harmful memes.
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Yes, that's a hard call. I think I'm in the "it's better for us to yell about it first and try to fix it, because fixing it quietly is infeasible, and the bad guys are already on the case" camp, but I can see arguments on both sides.
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I just read this article and... wow. Very epic take-down of a bunch of genomics & related stuff. Both of you will probably want to have a look. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-review/ …https://twitter.com/matthewckeller/status/1126380891243188224 …
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Already read it but I appreciate the heads-up. I declined to get involved in some 5HTTLPR research years ago, not because I'm an expert, but because I had a very clear sense that the researchers had no idea whatsoever what they were doing. I wonder how common that is, now.
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Given the response to this thread, I have the sense that
@jamesheathers could get funding to do this full-time via Patreon or similar quite readily. Not sure how that scales but it seems like it would be a good start for helping him get some sleep. - 8 more replies
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Not only is science broken, but the general public conception of science as having universal and exclusive access to truth and implicit naive scientific realism. First one creates a trust bubble in science, and suggests using it where it doesn't work well like social psych
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First and second makes metaphysics impossible, which makes ethics impossible.
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