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Re:Problems with Eric Weinstein's “Geometric Unity” by mgamache on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:22PM (#26371472)
He points out that most of our foundational science was published outside of peer review. For example: Watson & Crick's double-helix hypothesis.
Re:Problems with Eric Weinstein's “Geometric Unity” by jchallis on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:48PM (#26371655)
That’s a pretty bold claim. The 1953 Nature paper laid out both the double helix and the Central Dogma (which is arguably the more important result). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_Structure_of_Nucleic...