Citizen science around Covid is a good example. There was actual tension. Mutual hostility and suspicion between institutional and citizen science. A suspicious crowd checking up on CDC math. Often incompetently, and cargo-culting “scientific method”. But truly independently.
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This is probably a good thing in the long run. Institutional vs indie science should probably be a slightly tense relationship of slight mutual hostility and check-and-balance dynamics. Not worshipful reverence and indulgent accommodation/co-option.
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Democratized indie science simply captured by the institutional kind would be a bit of a failed revolution.
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This is a good point and clarifies something I think I was a bit confused about. I’m interested in empiricism, but not in a post-theoretical inductive mode where you’re collecting more examples to serve theories. I’m interested in primary-phenomenology discovery empiricism. twitter.com/BryceBesler/st
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Yeah, a key part of early scientific revolution was that the pioneers were often instrument designers/builders too. Perhaps instrument making rather than use is what separates phenomenological empiricism from inductive empiricism. twitter.com/BryceBesler/st
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Possibly little overlap between theorist and experimentalist skill sets.
Novel untested theories + experimentalist = ideas for new test apparatuses.
Theorist + unexplained experimental measurements = new theories to fit the data
This seemingly happened again and again for…
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…Bohr was meeting with different research groups and producing theories that explained the regularities of the periodic table, Balmer series lines, and nuclear cross-sections to hot/cold neutron bombardment. But I’m not aware of any actual hands-on apparatus he devised or used.
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I think Dark Matter/Dark Energy are the frontiers of physics, potentially where revolutionary discoveries of Galileo/Newton magnitude exist.

