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isn’t the saying, 80% of everything is garbage?

bryanrasmussen 6y ago
Sturgeon's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law "ninety percent of everything is crap."
cproctor 6y ago
We better work on making more stuff.
- omgwtfbyobbq 6y ago
  Better stuff?
  - oneplane 6y ago
    If you have more stuff, and 10% is good, than that stuff can be more of the better.
goatlover 6y ago
Yeah, but one would hope that science has a higher standard. 80% garbage results in science sounds catastrophic to our understanding of the world, and in particular when it comes to making policies based on that science.
- behringer 6y ago
  You do realize we've been at this for a few thousand years, right? Catastrophic is putting it mildly.
- adamsea 6y ago
  There's the saying "science advances one funeral at at time." '‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.’ This principle was famously laid out by German theoretical physicist Max Planck in 1950 and it turns out that he was right, according to a new study.' https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/science-really-does-advance-one-funeral-at-a-time-study-suggests/3010961.article https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/science-really-does-adva... Also the story of Ignaz Semmelweis who discovered that if doctors washed their hands it reduced deaths during childbirth - but for a variety of reasons his findings were resisted. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639... https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639... Point being, as awesome as science is, it's still a human enterprise, and humans are still, well, human.
- barrenko 6y ago
  Unfortunately - like bs, power law is fractal.

Sturgeon's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law "ninety percent of everything is crap."

cproctor 6y ago

We better work on making more stuff.

omgwtfbyobbq 6y ago
Better stuff?
- oneplane 6y ago
  If you have more stuff, and 10% is good, than that stuff can be more of the better.

goatlover 6y ago

Yeah, but one would hope that science has a higher standard. 80% garbage results in science sounds catastrophic to our understanding of the world, and in particular when it comes to making policies based on that science.

behringer 6y ago
You do realize we've been at this for a few thousand years, right? Catastrophic is putting it mildly.
adamsea 6y ago
There's the saying "science advances one funeral at at time." '‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.’ This principle was famously laid out by German theoretical physicist Max Planck in 1950 and it turns out that he was right, according to a new study.' https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/science-really-does-advance-one-funeral-at-a-time-study-suggests/3010961.article https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/science-really-does-adva... Also the story of Ignaz Semmelweis who discovered that if doctors washed their hands it reduced deaths during childbirth - but for a variety of reasons his findings were resisted. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639... https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639... Point being, as awesome as science is, it's still a human enterprise, and humans are still, well, human.
barrenko 6y ago
Unfortunately - like bs, power law is fractal.