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The author's clearly not an amateur. He's a condensed matter postdoc.
by KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
The author's clearly not an amateur. He's a condensed matter postdoc.
- swores 3y agoI think there's an argument to say that he was doing it as part of his work, but I'll make this point anyway: if he was doing it for fun and to entertain people in a way unrelated to his actual job, wouldn't it still be "amateur science"? The same way that if a premier league footballer or an MLB hall of famer went with their family to play a game in the park, that's amateur football/baseball despite being done by a professional. And while one could argue that the words used were "amateur scientist" rather than "amateur science", it could also be argued the opposite direction by suggesting that tag might not actually apply to the author but instead to the type of content since it's to be read and perhaps replicated by amateur scientists more than professional ones. Or we could just celebrate the article regardless of the accuracy of someone's throwaway remark's categorisation of it :p