Who is your science fact checker?
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Replying to @TheAnnaGat
@perrymetzger (especially for chemistry or computer security) and @alyssamvance (especially for answering the question “is this outrageous claim of a tech breakthrough plausible?”)1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
For biology I usually do my own fact-checking, but I ask for help on stress-testing ideas for experiments (“couldn’t you just...?” “Why don’t they just...?”)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @TheAnnaGat and
Sometimes the answer to “why not just...” is a technical reason it wouldn’t work; sometimes it’s too expensive; sometimes it’s actually standard practice already and I’ve reinvented the wheel; once in a while it’s actually an obvious good idea that’s been overlooked.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @TheAnnaGat and
Is this how Daphnia Labs was born?
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Replying to @TheAnnaGat @ArtirKel and
Yes! Though there my stress-tester is Leon Peshkin, my cofounder, who’s an aging researcher at Harvard and the best kind of skeptic. (He thinks almost everything in aging is fake but is passionately pursuing the few things that he’s convinced aren’t.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @TheAnnaGat and
Very interesting! Can I read an explainer of his skepticism online, or is it best to try to meet him irl?
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IRL is probably best, I don’t think he has public writing about this stuff. (It can be risky to publicly diss prominent aging researchers if you suspect them of fabricating data.)
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