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Re:Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines by inglor_cz on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:37PM (#37744768)
"any idea, to be truly groundbreaking, can not be easily distinguished from noise / crackpot theories"

This is an interesting insight. Yeah, I think you are onto something here.

Groundbreaking ideas, as opposed to new technologies, tend not to have obvious real world applications/results for years. As such, they aren't easily distinguishable from random crackpottery.

We tend to validate ideas by their later applications, or, at the very least, a heap of corroborating evidence. Both takes a lot of time to aggregate.

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Re:Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines by MichaelZuo on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:01PM (#37746163)
It's practically a tautology, if the idea was easily distinguishable from 'random crackpottery' then it wouldn't be so groundbreaking, because it necessitates that the other party in a 30 to 60 minute meeting could confidently distinguish it.
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