True! Specialization is fine & good. We need mechanisms besides object-level knowledge to evaluate trustworthiness. (Track records, journalism, social proof, and lawsuits are examples.)
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oooh, i’ll have to read that. i’ve been overall broadly pleased about the whole preprint/Twitter explosion in scientific dissemination, it’s just that it very much generates its own problems and (ad hoc, structurally unsupported, distributed/inefficient) mitigation workload
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I like that so much tacit knowledge is being made explicit but i would, as a layman. (Btw please let me know if you catch me tweeting something you know is crap)
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Especially given that most of them thought many other reputed “problems with life science” were exaggerated or misunderstood by outsiders.
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The general thought is that within & among experts in a given domain, it sorta works to keep things moving in the right direction, but as a source of what's true more generally it falls victim to the needing to be an expert to know if you can trust the experts issue from earlier
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