kind of a brutal own of Science that they never got around to testing the efficacy of peer reviewhttps://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/1074394984990691328 …
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has me thinking though i wonder if as time passes more and more of the things that could be Understood are contextual infohazards like certain things have to be True for societies of different granularities to function in their extant form
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peer review has many tacit functions, expect an important one is the suppression of Heresy usually this is done for the benefit of incumbent career scientists, sometimes for the advantage of an entire field, perhaps other times with the aim of maintaining a broader status quo
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anyway Kuhn was right and Science is socially constructed and this probably constrains science at several levels; and this has always been true, but the postwar institutionalization of Science has probably tightened these constraints
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I need to read Kuhn so I can cause consternation and tell people he's wrong with more than just the high endpoints I get of him.
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do note the distinction between "science", "Science", "'science'", and "SCIENCE!"
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I think the "paradigm" thing irritates me but I'm not educated enough to make sure I'm tackling his actual point rather than poor representations of it.
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the paradigm thing seems sketchy as a description of the territory but I think it's a serviceable map of the map
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