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It's worth noting that the title is a pun on the name of the popular social media channel "I ****ing Love Science". The "science" that they ****ing love is most
by rjknight 5y ago
It's worth noting that the title is a pun on the name of the popular social media channel "I ****ing Love Science". The "science" that they ****ing love is mostly "science as a bundle of useful, entertaining, and authoritative facts", rather than "science as a human process of discovery and error-correction".
Aside from the substantive points about the cost of bugs, the subtext of the article is that real science is frequently difficult, painful, frustrating and ambiguous, in contrast to the neat stories that make up the "science as a bundle of facts" world-view.