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How does he think dissemination of scientific knowledge actually works? 99.99% of people don't have the education to truly verify breakthrough scientific work.
by drc500free 4y ago
How does he think dissemination of scientific knowledge actually works? 99.99% of people don't have the education to truly verify breakthrough scientific work.
It's a lot of pageantry and ethical training to make the appeal to authority more valid, but it will always at its core be appeal to authority.
- colpabar 4y agoI think a lot of people are very wary of phrases like "believe the science" and have come to see them as actually meaning "believe the well-paid people on the TV and don't you dare question any of it." I completely agree most people are not capable of actually understanding most science, but there's also been a growing faction of "science zealots" who view science and scientists as somehow above all the problems that affect every other things humans do.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoHopefully people involved in the real dissemination of scientific knowledge can read more than 144 characters. He indicated in the same tweet thread what it really was. The fact that people can refence just one part of the thread and have it go viral out of context is pretty symbolic of our modern times.
- drc500free 4y agoI don't know if there's such thing as the "real" dissemination of scientific knowledge. You just have concentric circles of people that each know a bit less about the subject matter. The farther you get from the handful of experts on a particular subproblem, the more false a statement has to be to be noticed as false.