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#pathologicalscience

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Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@muratgulsacan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>muratgulsacan</span></a></span> I am neither a historian nor a philosopher of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> , but I do have a PhD and my research is cited in the history of 20th century <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/StructureOfMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StructureOfMatter</span></a>. And since you requested ‘contemporary reading’, might I suggest <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/NobelLaureate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NobelLaureate</span></a> Irving Langmuir’s talk on <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PathologicalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PathologicalScience</span></a> ? <a href="https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir/langmuir.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir</span><span class="invisible">/langmuir.htm</span></a></p><p>All scientists should read it, but few have even heard about it!</p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@RationalWiki" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RationalWiki</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ColdFusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdFusion</span></a> is a modern example of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PathologicalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PathologicalScience</span></a>.</p><p>What is pathological <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> ? 👉 <a href="https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir/langmuir.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir</span><span class="invisible">/langmuir.htm</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@EllisCrawford" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EllisCrawford</span></a></span> You said the magic words; <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PathologicalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PathologicalScience</span></a>. ✅ </p><p>I assume you’ve read <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/IrvingLangmuir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IrvingLangmuir</span></a> pre-<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ColdFusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdFusion</span></a> recollections and advice in diagnosing it. For those who haven’t 👉 <a href="https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir/langmuir.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir</span><span class="invisible">/langmuir.htm</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>heidilifeldman</span></a></span> So true! 👏 </p><p>In fact, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/RichardFeynman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardFeynman</span></a> famously said “The first principle (of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> ) is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." </p><p>Less famously, Feynman was carrying the philosophical torch of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/IrvingLangmuir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IrvingLangmuir</span></a> , who coined the term <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PathologicalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PathologicalScience</span></a>.</p><p>More here: “Chemical Eye 👁️ on Wishful Thinking” 👉 <a href="http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/011507_macdougall.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sitnews.us/MacDougall/011507_m</span><span class="invisible">acdougall.html</span></a></p>
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