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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This just reminds me of an obnoxious argument I was on the periphery of at a dinner where my sociologist roommate was berating a hapless empirical econ person by name dropping Kuhn. Later I read Kuhn and realized that he clearly didn't understand Kuhn.
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Also, "is economics a science" is legit the dumbest pseudo-intellectual debate you see on Twitter that you will also have in real life.
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seriously i will die before i endure that dumb argument again
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Replying to @eigenrobot @orthonormalist
Do you even theorize falsifiable models bro
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