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I think we disagree about what science is. Science isn’t something that is a optimal condition process. It’s a process resilient to human nature. Everything you
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
I think we disagree about what science is. Science isn’t something that is a optimal condition process. It’s a process resilient to human nature. Everything you hold up as a failure is in my mind a victory for science.
The failures of science are the papers that are outright fraud and as such are cunningly crafted to deceive and it actually works, and we believe falsehoods to this day - which I think we agree on being the failure of science.
This however was not. Yes the paper shouldn’t have been published. But it was. Etc. As humans are wont to do. Science didn’t happen in the news - excitement happened in the news. Human failures and bias reigned. Yet Science happened in the lab. That is victory.
Yet, the fact there are failures in no way impugns the victories.