"I believe in science" is the cheapest intellectual dross on the market. Do you? Science is an ongoing institutional bloodbath; every "breakthrough" is a persistent or even cantankerous David finally scoring one on Goliath, often only posthumously. It's metal AF.
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This reads hyperbolic to me. They mean they trust that process, rather than "bible say no abortion" or whatever. Maybe its metal AF in the abstract but when I picture a breakthrough I imagine someone in their 60s with reading glasses on turning a journal page and saying "neat".
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I don't doubt its gritty for some iconoclast throwing their career on the table, but the aftermath doesn't spell power cords for me and that sounds like a minority. I'm visualizing the collective "hmm" of the community upon reading the paper. Which bio to start with?
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"Despite various publications of results where hand washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis …
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