Yeah and bizarrely people will become deeply emotionally invested in their childhood knowledge not becoming false even when it has no relevance to their lives or any "social justice issue" Remember Pluto no longer being a planethttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1291071654127427584 …
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Pluto getting "demoted" because for so long we thought it was the only one of its kind and then suddenly discovered it was just the most visible of dozens of them feels symbolic of something Pluto is the Caitlyn Jenner of trans-Neptunian objects
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people don't want to hear this but the thing about pile-ons is that if the target survives them, their brain just adjusts its internal settings to "ignore other people's opinions" because it's the only way to survive, emotionally
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That was a dumb decision, just say there are 17 planets.pic.twitter.com/OQWMKpFcBU
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Best just get kids used to the qualified version from the start: we know about [however many] [items in a taxonomy].
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I hate that I know in an episode of the big bang theory sheldon is mad at Neil degrasse Tyson for demoting Pluto
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-allegations-four-women … this is what I think of when people post NDT
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Yeah I was avoiding bringing that up but it is the elephant in the room
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Nothing new about this. So did Galileo for stating simple, empirical facts about astronomy; and so, today, does Dr. Fauci over stating simple, empirical facts about the pandemic.
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