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Tragicomically the author quotes: "the great ecologist E.O. Wilson" for guidance on what a good scientist is... Read what Scientific American did to Wilson mer
by glofish 5y ago
Tragicomically the author quotes: "the great ecologist E.O. Wilson" for guidance on what a good scientist is...
Read what Scientific American did to Wilson mere three days after his death:
https://razib.substack.com/p/setting-the-record-straight-open https://razib.substack.com/p/setting-the-record-straight-ope...
A meritless attack by an untrained hack, with no evidence and proof whatsoever:
> seemed to have little to do with Wilson, and everything to do with opportunistically shoehorning particular views about social justice into the practice of hard science.
and
> ... attacks on science are legion, genuine fear of the social-media mob is rampant in academia and whole careers are “canceled” on a specious basis ...
That is a much better lesson for a young scientists of where science is headed.
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- sersi 5y agoWow, that completely discredits Scientific American... I'm pretty politically aligned with the nurse who wrote that oped but that doesn't change the fact that this oped is a complete hackjob, attacking great scientists with baseless accusation, wilfully misunderstanding the work of Wilson (and Mendel, Darwin, etc...) and completely misunderstanding statistics. The point of science is the search of truth, it's impossible to get closer to the truth of the world if the only answers the researcher accepts are those that matches their political views.