The recent documentary “Chasing Einstein”, which centers on the hunt for dark matter (and the possibility that physicists are looking for something that doesn't exist) got me thinking about similarities between religious and intellectual cults. What do you think?
I'm not a scientist so I'm not qualified to say what it means to do science well, but @Meaningness has said many interesting/helpful things on that.
Doing religion well includes recognising that humans do religion (especially secular folk), and understanding major failure modes.
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A failure to understand human religious type behaviours might result people treating their research area as their sole source of meaning and purpose, for example. A failure to do science well fails to produce knowledge (I guess
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I'll have a think. It's an interesting questionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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