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Science and everything else humans do is social and cliquey. There's nothing that brings a group with some power over others together more than being able to a
by outsomnia 4y ago
Science and everything else humans do is social and cliquey.
There's nothing that brings a group with some power over others together more than being able to agree that someone outside the group should be sidelined or punished.
- an1sotropy 4y agoThat may be too relativist. The outlines of her critiques of particle physics do not stick in the same way, I think, against astronomy and astrophysics (witness questions being answered by Webb), or against computational climate science (witness new ability to quantitatively attribute part of given storm to global warming), or against machine learning research (lots of hype but lots of value like predicting protein structure). So saying “well everyone can poo-poo everyone else not in their field” is still true of course, but I think her specific critiques of particle physics are biting (and provoke responses) because her experience allows those critiques to be more accurate and more trenchant.
- nraynaud 4y agoShe has criticized her own field too, and changed her research topic.
- readthenotes1 4y agoScience advances one gravestone at a time...