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    1. Julia Galef‏Verified account @juliagalef 10 Aug 2017

      A mistake I see smart people make all the time: Presenting one scientist's take on a contested topic, and saying "See, scientists think X"

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 10 Aug 2017
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      One scientist's "take" could be very convincing. The _Origin of Species_ for example. It's not one scientist, one vote.

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        2. Julia Galef‏Verified account @juliagalef 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          Sure, but if some respectable scientists disagreed w/Darwin, it'd still be misleading to present Darwin's thesis as "what scientists think"

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        3. Julia Galef‏Verified account @juliagalef 10 Aug 2017
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          (there's a grey area of "respectable" scientific disagreement, but many examples of this mistake fall well outside the grey area)

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        4. Ian McCullough‏ @IanMMcC 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @juliagalef @paulg

          It's the problem or "Science says!" headlines. If the word "Science" can be replaced in sentence w/ "The Pope," something is probably amiss.

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        1. Michael‏ @mmay3r 10 Aug 2017
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          Point is, it should be about the argument or data, not the scientist

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        1. Elad Gil‏Verified account @eladgil 10 Aug 2017
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          The worst version of this was Kary Mullis (nobelist in Chemistry) saying HIV did not cause AIDS. Idea helped kill thousands in S. Africa

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        2. Robert Gentel‏ @robertgentel 10 Aug 2017
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          Science is not a democracy but scientific consensus still has value.

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        1. Evan Downing‏ @EvanDowning 11 Aug 2017
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          It's all scientists, zero votes. The work stands for itself; using any number of scientists as a crutch for discourse is dangerous.

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        1. Eric Bohlman‏ @ebohlman 11 Aug 2017
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          2/ You can't treat it in isolation.

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        1. Eric Bohlman‏ @ebohlman 11 Aug 2017
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          1/ OoS is considered convincing because just about every scientist who followed up on it came up with similar conclusions.

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        2. Bitcoin Shortseller‏ @oheyitsdatboi 10 Aug 2017
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          Yeah, but it's Darwin plus mountains of corroborating evidence that makes it convincing.

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        3. Bitcoin Shortseller‏ @oheyitsdatboi 10 Aug 2017
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          Also, a lot of Darwin's original work has been superseded by more advanced research.

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        1. Will Robbins‏ @whrobbins 10 Aug 2017
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          Doesn't help that since childhood we're taught about individuals who saw something nobody else did (Galileo w heliocentism, Newton w grav.)

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        1. max kesin‏ @nlpnyc 10 Aug 2017
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          Yes but representing is as "scientists think" is misleading. Also Darwin became convincing to the public after certain % of experts agreed

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