Michael Vera<p>I'm claiming Unification, not Perfection:</p><p><a href="https://www.michaelvera.org/Unified_Theory_of_Energy.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">michaelvera.org/Unified_Theory</span><span class="invisible">_of_Energy.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/theoreticalphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theoreticalphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/unifiedtheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unifiedtheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/quantumphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantumphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>relativity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/futureofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>futureofscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/einstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>einstein</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/newphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cosmology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/particlephysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>particlephysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/fundamentalphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fundamentalphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/scienceexploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scienceexploration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/unification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/gravitationaltheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gravitationaltheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/electromagnetism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electromagnetism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/thermodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thermodynamics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/matter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>matter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/sciencematters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencematters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/scienceisawesome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scienceisawesome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/nextgenphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nextgenphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/physicslover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicslover</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/physicscommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicscommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/energytheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energytheory</span></a> <a 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Linh Pham<p>Maybe straws sticking out of one's head with people drinking from them might just be better than aliens poking and prodding using sticks sticking out of one's head?</p><p>Maybe?!?</p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/StarTrekVoyager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrekVoyager</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/StarTrekTNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrekTNG</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/Phantasms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Phantasms</span></a></p>
Valen RESISTS<p>Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a wonderful take on HP where instead of being raised by a family full of hate and dysfunction, the parents are scientists. Harry then brings the Scientific Method to Hogwarts and analyzes how magic works. He also becomes friends with Draco! Highly recommended.</p><p><a href="https://hpmor.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hpmor.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Har</span><span class="invisible">ry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rationality</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CriticalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalThinking</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FanFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FanFiction</span></a></p>
𝗖 𝗔 𝗧<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@silentexception" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>silentexception</span></a></span> </p><p>Science is nothing like religion. Science is a method that uses evidence and peer-review processes to verify the validity of its claims. Religion is the opposite. It has dictates by a god that are to be accepted implicitly and not questioned, even if they make no sense logically or scientifically.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/god" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>god</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RVLara23" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RVLara23</span></a></span> <br>It’s just the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> 🤷🏻♂️</p>
Tina M Casey<p>New solar cell theory confirmed by experiment, now the fun begins</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solar</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/solarpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpower</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/solarenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarenergy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/solarcell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarcell</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/solarefficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarefficiency</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/solarcellefficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarcellefficiency</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/renewableenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewableenergy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewables</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/cleanenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cleanenergy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/greenenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenenergy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/cleanpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cleanpower</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/sdg7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sdg7</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientists</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/experimental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimental</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/theoretical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theoretical</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/photovoltaic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photovoltaic</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pv</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pvresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pvresearch</span></a></p><p><a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2024/10/28/first-ever-demonstration-of-bulk-photovoltaic-effect-deploys-graphite-sandwich/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cleantechnica.com/2024/10/28/f</span><span class="invisible">irst-ever-demonstration-of-bulk-photovoltaic-effect-deploys-graphite-sandwich/</span></a></p>
Tina M Casey<p>New solar cell theory confirmed by experiment, now the fun begins</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/solarpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/solarenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarenergy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/solarcell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarcell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/solarefficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarefficiency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/solarcellefficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarcellefficiency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/renewableenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewableenergy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewables</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/cleanenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cleanenergy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/greenenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenenergy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/cleanpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cleanpower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/sdg7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sdg7</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/experimental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimental</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/theoretical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theoretical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/photovoltaic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photovoltaic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/pv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pv</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/pvresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pvresearch</span></a></p><p><a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2024/10/28/first-ever-demonstration-of-bulk-photovoltaic-effect-deploys-graphite-sandwich/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cleantechnica.com/2024/10/28/f</span><span class="invisible">irst-ever-demonstration-of-bulk-photovoltaic-effect-deploys-graphite-sandwich/</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zeroes.ca/@hannu_ikonen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hannu_ikonen</span></a></span> <br>The official name of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FAFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FAFO</span></a> is the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a>:</p>
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a></p>
ma𝕏pool<p>The piranha problem: Large effects swimming in a small pond.<br>Christopher Tosh, Philip Greengard, Ben Goodrich, Andrew Gelman, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bayes.club/@avehtari" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>avehtari</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@djhsu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>djhsu</span></a></span> <br>2 Apr 2024<br> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13445" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2105.13445</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>In a lot of social science research, small, random factors are reported as having large effects on social and political attitudes and behavior (social priming, hormonal levels,parental socioeconomic status, weather, ...). Studies have claimed to find large effects from these and other inputs.</p><p>The results show that it would be extremely unlikely to have all these large effects coexisting—they would have to almost exactly cancel each other out.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/socialScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialScience</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/replicationCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>replicationCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/quantitative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantitative</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/scientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificMethod</span></a></p>
mozzribo<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hazelweakly</span></a></span></p><p>For me it's cross-section <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/playfulness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>playfulness</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/civics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civics</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a>, & the <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a>. I find education to be the foundation of any exemplary, functional and <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/SustainableDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SustainableDemocracy</span></a>.</p><p>How about your <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/passions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>passions</span></a>?</p>
Violet<p>Here's another article based on a trend I just don't get. Studies that yield negative results tend not to be published, or even submitted for publication. The article refers to such studies several times as "failed" studies. </p><p>This runs contrary to the principle I taught my junior high science students thirty years ago. I had them come up with an experimental design, create a hypothesis, perform the experiment, and document their results, just like any science class. The most significant lesson from this process isn't just how to perform and document an experiment; it's recognizing that even if your hypothesis is incorrect, you've learned something about the phenomenon you're studying. </p><p>It's hard to believe that the scientific community overall is just realizing the importance of negative or unexpected results. The next time someone studies a certain phenomenon, reviewing negative results tells them what to exclude or control. Otherwise they may unknowingly include factors that have already been shown to affect the results. </p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Methodology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Methodology</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01389-7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-024</span><span class="invisible">-01389-7</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>Right Kind of Wrong</p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> isn't perfect, but it does require rigor, intentionality, and a tolerance for failure, which should be reframed as <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> opportunities. </p><p>The cost of inaction (not running an experiment) may be high. </p><p>We're coming off a decade-long period of artificially low interest rates and the pandemic revealed cracks in everything, including many people's hypotheses for what was sustainable.</p><p><a href="http://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/24/right-kind-of-wrong/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/24/r</span><span class="invisible">ight-kind-of-wrong/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FAFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FAFO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STEM</span></a></p>
skua<p>So how does sciencw work?<br>Which ideas get funded and so get researched?</p><p>How does one group of researchers increase the likelihood that they'll get funding?</p><p>One way is by denigrating the competition in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PressReleases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PressReleases</span></a>. </p><p>Below is an example of this part of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a>. <br>It ain't yer Pollyanna's scientific method.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificRhetoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificRhetoric</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/science/nobody-knows-how-consciousness-works-but-top-researchers-are-fighting-over-which-theories-are-really-science-2702639" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">deccanherald.com/science/nobod</span><span class="invisible">y-knows-how-consciousness-works-but-top-researchers-are-fighting-over-which-theories-are-really-science-2702639</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Globalism vs. the scientific revolution - Enlarge (credit: duncan1890) </p><p>How did science get started? A fe... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1984378" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=1984378</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/originofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>originofscience</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Tanquist<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs</span></a></span> <br>The obervations were made on a limited sample of people.<br>The researcher promoted one interpretation when there are other possible interpretations.<br>This interpretation was used to define an entire population of people as deficient.<br>This is not science.</p><p>The 2019 paper at this link rebuts the Baron-Cohen conclusionns.<br><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959478/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/</span><span class="invisible">PMC6959478/</span></a></p><p>The original Baron-Cohen reference is from 1988.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a></p>
Martin Nutty<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@Nazani" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nazani</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@klillington" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>klillington</span></a></span> </p><p>One is likely a lot less dangerous than the other, however these chakra folks seem particularly vulnerable to <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> exploitation. Seems to me that it is important to have an organized counter narrative. </p><p>As a happy <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/atheist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atheist</span></a>, a believer in the virtue of the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a>, this kind of stuff frustrates me while also recognizing that the rationalist community is not very good at countering this kind of narrative and giving a more hopeful message</p>
Ricardo Harvin<p>So yes, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scirnce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scirnce</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientists</span></a> do make, and have always made, absolute pronouncements that are later proven false or incomplete even when following the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a>.</p><p>Who's to say the hallowed, revered <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scientific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientific</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/method" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>method</span></a> itself may not one to be proven to be flawed..?</p>
Miro Collas<p>Feynman on Scientific Method. - YouTube <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FR</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p><p>Physicist Richard Feynman explains the scientific and unscientific methods of understanding nature.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a></p>
🇺🇦 Sean Prophet ⚛<p>I took great pains on Sunday to explain for the Nth time why the "argument from ignorance" is false, manipulative, and arrogant. It involves circular reasoning, proof-burden shifting, self-deception, and using the presence of uncertainty--*to assert other unjustified certainty.*</p><p>I then got a response that was a most *beautiful* boiler-plate, texbook restatement of the same argument that I had just debunked! And you've heard it all before. Here goes:</p><p>//Science's ability to document the 'how' does not necessarily explain it, and partially explaining it doesn't illuminate the 'why.'//</p><p>This is "we can't explain" all over again, the classic core of the argument from ignorance. It usually means "I can't explain, because I haven't studied the subject in depth, and I have no idea what I'm talking about." </p><p>What makes anyone think that there IS a "why" to the universe? Everything that happens has a cause, but not necessarily a purpose. Saying we don't know something's "purpose" is a straw man through and through. We *can't* know purpose because purpose implies a mind we can't read, and represents a not-so-subtle argument for a "creator." </p><p>Take the question "Why does the Sun exist?" This demonstrates this absurdity of intent. Unless "gawd" directly *willed* the Sun into existence with a wave of their hand, it's there for the same reason as any other star. Why does any star in the universe exist? Because gravity coalesced gas and ignited a fusion reaction. Why did that happen? For the same reason you might climb a mountain--because it was there.</p><p>//there are notable gaps in the historical record//</p><p>So, what? Another core reference to ignorance. If there's a gap, that means a GAP. You don't get to fill it with whatever you want, or assert that the absence of knowledge somehow supports other knowledge we don't have. This is the blind leading the blind.</p><p>//the record is being rewritten constantly as new evidence comes to light//</p><p>Which is it? Are there gaps, or is the entire record suspect? You see how this is used to undermine the totality of science? Not only are we missing data, in this view, but the data we do have is supposedly suspect. And it's not suspect because of some specific error in a given experiment or paper this person discovered. That would take work. According to these buffoons, all scientific data is suspect--IN GENERAL.</p><p>Constant revision is *science functioning as designed.* Revisions to science ONLY happen when someone shoulders an extremely heavy burden of proof. It's not enough merely to question existing evidence. When challenging an existing theory, you have to provide *better* evidence, along with a new theory to explain it--and that's the tough part. That's why gaps in our knowledge persist, because probing those gaps is difficult. </p><p>And it's also why evidence that has stood the test of time will usually continue to do so. The way science advances usually has to do with discovering data that requires refinements of earlier theories, such as how Einstein's Relativity modified Newtonian mechanics. Nothing Newton discovered was overturned. His laws remain an excellent approximation for how matter behaves, except at near-light (relativistic) speeds.</p><p>//any scientist that does not accept the possibility of missing evidence cannot claim they understand the limits of possible knowledge.//</p><p>It's far worse than that: Any "scientist" who does not accept the possibility of missing evidence IS NOT A SCIENTIST.</p><p>//Absent evidence of intent....we are likely not going to get closer to the truth, because it's ineffable.//</p><p>There it is again, the insistence on knowing intent, or the "why." What makes anyone think that there is a "why" to the universe at all? (This is getting repetitive). "Ineffable" is one of the worst words in the English language. (Someone used to run a blog called "Effing the Ineffable." HA) The problem with the word is that it's obscurantist. It means "can't be known, described, or expressed." Once again this is a reference to the core of the argument from ignorance. "We can't know THIS--therefore we know THAT (which I just made up)."</p><p>//I simply am not going to accept that because [evidence of] something is missing means it isn't possible.//</p><p>Of course an infinite number of things are possible. The question is, WHICH THINGS are true or likely to be true??? And that's why evidence is all-important. Science doesn't rule things out, it rules them IN. With evidence! Once again this takes the form "We don't know that _______ is NOT true, so that means it's possibly true." </p><p>According to the argument from ignorance, you can fill in the blank with anything you want! Purple Chupacabras? Can't prove they don't exist. If they don't exist on Earth, they could exist on some other planet, right? Folks, this is unforgivable self-dishonesty. Until you find the purple Chupacabra, there's nothing to talk about. Then you could shift the criteria to orange Chupacabras we "can't prove don't exist," and on it goes.</p><p>Bertrand Russell's famous teapot thought experiment demonstrated the absurdity of this tactic.</p><p>//I know that many believe they know the limits of what is true. I do not.//</p><p>This is frankly the most arrogant form of the argument from ignorance. Because if you finish the thought what it really means is "I refuse to be held accountable to the body of work produced by the scientific method, or for any standards of evidence or burden of proof it imposes."</p><p>//The history of scientific investigation is one of the frequent need to reset and recalibrate what "truth" actually is.//</p><p>Yes, that's abundantly clear as previously stipulated. And that recalibration is done according to the strictest rules of evidence--not according to personal doubt. Doubt is effortless. Proof is difficult.</p><p>I'm sad to say that I've found that the "argument from ignorance" forms the core of the most stubborn and widely-held popular epistemology. You've heard all this from ignorant peopple, but also from so-called educated people who aren't trained in the probabilistic methods of the hard sciences.</p><p>The reason it's so popular is because it allows people to feel that their opinion "might" someday be proven true, even if it contradicts every single bit of current knowledge (pointy-headed, know-it-all) scientists spent centuries accumulating.</p><p>It's a total intellectual "get ouf of jail free" card.</p><p>This is the apocalypse Carl Sagan warned us about. It's all happening just like he said. Because of this mental rot, we're losing our ability to sustain a technological civilization. Because we forgot the rigor and mental discipline that got us here in the first place.</p><p>Do better, hoomons!</p><p><a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ignorance</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/logicalfallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logicalfallacy</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/burdenofproof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>burdenofproof</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/god" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>god</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/purpose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>purpose</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/NOMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NOMA</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universe</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reality</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/teleology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teleology</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/creationism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creationism</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/argumentfromignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>argumentfromignorance</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/godofthegaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>godofthegaps</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/sagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sagan</span></a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/russellsteapot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russellsteapot</span></a></p>
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