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Scientists are human. Science is the work of humans. Humans, and their works, are flawed. This is a problem like our eventual deaths are problems. Sure, it might suck, but what are you going to do? twitter.com/WAWilsonIV/sta

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Jun 20, 2018

Astrophysics and psychology share a common flaw, however: a lack of instruments with sufficient sophistication to measure what needs to be measured. And limited opportunity for direct observation and, hence, for falsification.

Cinder

@Triquetrea

Jun 20, 2018

Physics is far more sophisticated and mature than psychology, but there is still human error, measurement error, unknowable variables... The farther you get from our atmosphere, the worse. The more erratic something moves, the worse. Etc.

Cinder

@Triquetrea

All these things make it harder to respond to chicanery, harder to fight bad science, harder to falsify the eminently flawed. It takes state or megacorp level funding to make a landing on the moon. And we're expecting definitive information about things not locked in orbit? Uh.

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I think every professional astronomer takes any new result with a grain of salt: ambiguity is part of the business. Unfortunately. You just try to do best as you can with always incomplete information.

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I occasionally lose sleep and get nasty panic attacks over for the concern that likely some of my results are shit, but I just don't know what. I just have had to work with the very limited resources available. A big part of astronomy is not well funded and lacks manpower.

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