'Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why : technology
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/10cyn3e/disruptive_science_has_declined_and_no_one_knows/Checking Facts Even If One Can't - Insight
https://www.theinsight.org/p/checking-facts-even-if-one-cantHow the COVID pandemic is changing global science collaborations
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01570-2I want to impress that there is a lot to lose for scientists (esp virologists) to say they think Covid-19 could’ve emerged in connection to research activities. All at once you’re dealing with your colleagues, institute, reviewers of papers & grants, & the Chinese government.
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1404562745853452290Meet Mary Somerville: The Brilliant Woman for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined – Brain Pickings
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/26/mary-somerville-scientist/Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-xThe Absurdity of Peer Review. What the pandemic revealed about… | by Mark Humphries | Jun, 2021 | Elemental
https://elemental.medium.com/the-absurdity-of-peer-review-1d58e5d9e661The Chaos of Science in Power | Palladium Magazine
https://palladiummag.com/2021/06/07/the-chaos-of-science-in-power/The Sudden Rise of the Coronavirus Lab-Leak Theory | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/the-sudden-rise-of-the-coronavirus-lab-leak-theory2020 Anthony Fauci and the Covid-19 pandemic2021-05 How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Lab-Leak Theory2021-05 Origin of Covid — Following the CluesDavid Relman and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Gain-of-function research and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Peter Daszak and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Ralph Baric and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Scientific practiceSenatorship of Rand PaulThe lab-leak theory of the origin of SARS-CoV-2The zoonotic-spillover theory of the origin of SARS-CoV-2Tom Cotton and the lab-leak theory of SARS-CoV-2Tucker Carlson and Fox News
These people don't do conditional probabilities. And I guess they never heard of Karl Popper's 'The Poverty of Historicism', because historicism is largely what they trade in.
https://twitter.com/gdemaneuf/status/1407078007093678117