1/ Noticed I've made several recent tweets upset about bad science. Apparently I have delusional feelings of sacredness about the field.
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2/ No reason to expect science different from electoral politics: apes in creative status competition under semi-arbitrary incentives.
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@Meaningness If so what is 'science' at all? The grade school definition is heavily depending on 'self correcting mechanisms'1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@i_contemplate_ Well… considerably more empirical study of what scientists actually do and how and why would be helpful!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@i_contemplate_ Self-correcting mechanisms usually seem to work in the long run, but sometimes who fields go into outer space for decades.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
@Meaningness Yeah precisely as many human endeavors are just as 'self correcting' such as accounting. Thoroughly unsatisfactory defn.
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