"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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I'm sorry to be constantly negative nancy here and do appreciate the rec's. But are these sort of stories not selected for being extreme? Average career much less exciting? Capital S "Science" more a trial and error against our dumb, monkey brains?
The average career in any industry isn't very exciting; the less you do, the less anyone will care enough to try and stop you (for better or for worse). Most people don't do very much, and only a subset of those who do have the stomach to persist through costly conflict.
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Agreed but isn't this a bit like saying that accounting is metal if we consider the accountants that fight the corporate ladder, create new companies, software and idk, reform taxes? Spotlighting the tail end of the bell curve seems like a PR move.
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Accounting is a much more intrinsically authority-mediated field; you follow standards to be a good accountant not because they're necessarily better, but because your output is "graded" by other humans. Only rarely do you get to do interesting stuff w/ novel inputs, e.g. crypto.
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