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I agree. One can be sceptical of the system while still working in the system and trusting that there will be a small number of winners that compensate for the

by j7ake 5y ago

I agree. One can be sceptical of the system while still working in the system and trusting that there will be a small number of winners that compensate for the sea of noise. I feel the HN community might resonate with how startups are seen currently. Most of them fail, some are outright fraud, but a few completely change the game. The model to assess the scientific enterprise should be similar to a VC. Most will fail but the few big successes will more than compensate for the losses.

immibis 5y ago
Noise is one thing. There are plenty of instances where humans have had to pick out signals from seas of noise. The anti-pro-sciencers are claiming there is not just noise, but a sea of deliberately fabricated conspiracy theories concocted over many decades with an ultimate end goal of putting tracking chips in them.