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A lovely story and a useful reminder that every single scientific norm or fact we take for granted likely has thousands of years of thought, debate, controversy
by jmkd 7y ago
A lovely story and a useful reminder that every single scientific norm or fact we take for granted likely has thousands of years of thought, debate, controversy before reaching the relative stasis from which we build.
- mysterydip 7y agoAlso a reminder that every norm we take for granted may be wrong :)
- zaarn 7y agoWell it's more of a story about how scientists who support the wrong politicians in ancient Greece might find themselves exiled if their side ends up loosing, regardless of their scientific beliefs.
- jmkd 7y agoWhich happens to this day in modern democracies, except swap exiled for ostracised.