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> But then, Freeman's analysis is itself still controversial, so who knows. Yeah it's always interesting as an outsider to read about settled scientific wisdom
by mherdeg 8y ago
> But then, Freeman's analysis is itself still controversial, so who knows.
Yeah it's always interesting as an outsider to read about settled scientific wisdom being enthusiastically challenged. I liked:
* the Gerta Keller dinosaur asteroid story -- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosau...
* the Rebecca Fried "No Irish Need Apply" back-and-forth -- https://web.archive.org/web/20150805045521/http://intl-jsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/07/03/jsh.shv066.abstract https://web.archive.org/web/20150805045521/http://intl-jsh.o...
- rossdavidh 8y agoThese are all interesting, and I hadn't heard about the NINA one, thanks! Of course, the HIV skeptics turned out to be...just plain incorrect. So sometimes the settled scientific wisdom is correct. But, not always...