Also the double irony is the specific blogger's post being passed around this time makes little to no mention of those who ring alarm bells about such scientific issues — which not only is kind of disingenuous (obfuscates history of criticism) but counter to doing good science.
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Listen and learn from theoreticians when they say a finding, no matter how much data, doesn't make sense. When somebody says "these data are irrelevant, the problem is that we don't understand what we are looking at" AND PROPOSES A DIFFERENT MODEL, they can't be easily ignored.
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Because the geocentric model also had data supporting it was very replicable. Listen to theoreticians. That is the actual story here. That blog post de-empahsises the fact that shifts in understanding are the impetus, at least in part, to methodological changes.
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And in the specific case being discussed I see no mention of those who have been questioning the findings in that whole literature for years. No mention of the word "theory" in the blog post!
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Also just to be absolutely clear, this isn't the first time of course. It's been a trend for a while with this and similar posts. And it's a thing that's been happening for ages in general. But Twitter really helps to pinpoint how people just retweet stuff without thinking.
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Hmm, what's a good/bad example of this?
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I don't want to link to people who are doing this now within the science twitter world. But I can give you a hint as to what the types of blogs are *coughs* see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment#History_and_etymology …
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From there you read even more about the kind of stuff I mean:https://social-epistemology.com/2016/09/23/the-violence-of-pure-reason-neoreaction-a-basilisk-adam-riggio/ …
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And from there you can easily imagine that these bloggers can also talk about wide ranging issues some of which can easily be very scientifici in contect and purport to even be "science". Although some hilarious oopsies exist too!https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/viPPjojmChxLGPE2v/the-dilemma-science-or-bayes …
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From there further you can start to think: which scientists have recently shared stuff from these kinds of blogs? And while I cannot tell you, the answer will start to pop out if you are following enough of us.
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Asking questions like, who follows or interacts with people like https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_Kirkegaard … and is a scientist? On and on...
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Quillette?
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Not this time, but yeah, that's a good example.
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