Cargo Cult Science – Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement address

Re:Cargo Cult Science – Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement ... by willis936 on Monday March 06, 2023 @08:57PM (#35050542)

>The career scientist couldn't care less about being right

What you are describing is philosophically, definitively, not science. The career scientist is a scientist who is committed to the scientific method. The career crank is committed to selling the notion that they have all the answers. That could be a citation chaser or a youtube contrarian.

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Re:Cargo Cult Science – Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement ... by precompute on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @02:00AM (#35052434)

I agree. But unerringly honest people are vanishingly rare, and the second someone with integrity encounters a field of research that could undermine others' research, there is a silent outgrouping and sometimes expulsion. Some science just isn't allowed to breathe.

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