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Problem is that science is sometimes expensive. Math usually is not, but physics sometimes requires building huge machines, and psychology requires giving quest
by Viliam1234 5y ago
Problem is that science is sometimes expensive. Math usually is not, but physics sometimes requires building huge machines, and psychology requires giving questionnaires to thousands of people. You can check the logic of the study, but unless you have lots of money, you need to trust the data.
If we no longer can trust the data, and don't have money to gather our own data... well, yes, then the only option is to admit that we don't know.
- sjwalter 5y agoOne thing Heather Heying talks about with some frequency is the bias in science towards "Big Science", that is, expensive science with complicated studies and huge funding requirements and expensive machinery. These are the things our scientific institutions prioritize and highlight. Science can be much cheaper, but nobody's interested in cheap science if it doesn't advance their careers. It's similar to how NASA was obsessed with putting people into space for a long time. That's basically adding a gigantic expense to the exploration of space. When they decided to stop all that shit and use robots and probes and leave the human out of it, the science of exploring space became much cheaper (relatively) and we got far more out of it.