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I saw this headline and my first thought was that someone was claiming that a mind impacting virus that evolved in the ocean was causing scientists to do resear
by ironSkillet 3y ago
I saw this headline and my first thought was that someone was claiming that a mind impacting virus that evolved in the ocean was causing scientists to do research with less ambition. Which is of course ridiculous lol. But a bug in a visualization library impacting science is also ridiculous.
- ossicones 3y agoOh man, I’ve been tricked so many times by the names of packages and frameworks… and here I did it to others. Sorry!
- tempodox 3y agoHave you ever seen the “BrainDead” series? This idea is not unheard of. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4877736 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4877736
- a_gnostic 3y agoThanks for reminding me of this oldie https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GVvL2ca65DA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GVvL2ca65DA
- RobotToaster 3y agoGiven that the majority of scientists seem to be cat owners, and toxoplasmosis has been linked to mental illness, it's not entirely implausible that a (human) bug is slowing scientific advancement.
- toxik 3y agoGot a source on that cat claim, doc?
- Zetobal 3y agoHis ass.
- RobotToaster 3y agoI prefer the term "moorean fact", but you are correct.
- thayne 3y agoIf I understand the abstract correctly (which I very well might not be), I don't think it is saying a bug caused problems across all of science, but that it resulted in an incorrect conclusion in one meta study of disruptiveness in science.
- xeckr 3y agoSeeing this headline together with the one about the link between Toxoplasma gondii and entrepreneurship made me wonder if I was still dreaming.