@strypey I didn't like this article.
The author puts in the word "science" a whole lot of things: the scientific method, the governmental choices based on scientific research, the opinions of some scientists, the media portrait of it... those are different players in the game.
Saying "science was pretty damned cocky about being right" doesn't really make sense. Who was cocky? The journalists? The scientist?
Science in itself is just a method. The results from scientists are usually packed with "maybe" and "further research is needed". What the author says, "we are totally sure the answer is X", that is bad science, and seldom seen.
If you want to make a public policy or a diet based on it feel free, but I wouldn't blame the method.
The last paragraph looks like really just rhetoric.
@pschwede I usually clean the kitchen. Or the garage. Or drive. Or ride the bicycle.
Well basically anything =D
What about you? And what do you listen to?
@alex I'm following this discussion since a while. It would be really awesome!
Latest #blog addition to my #feed: The Genealogical World of phylogenetic Networks:
https://phylonetworks.blogspot.com
A lot of interesting thoughts about #Biology, #anthropology, computational science, and networks in #phylogenetics analysis by scientists from many country, mainly northern Europe.
There is enough to read for a while!
I was thinking that, as a #qoto mod, I'd like to spend more time here talking about scientific content and matters and fun facts, and less about the #freespeech matter.
But then it dawned on me: they are very, very related.
@whirli Lucky you. I wish my life was adventurous enough to do something with a gopro.
Keep us posted!
@freemo
Thanks, once I have the bot(s) ready and the full permission of the twitter accounts I'll get in touch =)
I wanted to mirror some people too, like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris... I was just figuring out where to put the mirror bot =D
@ondiz Oh well, thanks but in reality it was a very slow ride, even with me being Italian and the stories a mere 10 pages long =D
But at least was motivating!
How is your Italian going, btw?
@ondiz When I started to learn Spanish Borges is one of the first authors I approached, El ALeph specifically. Difficult for me, but totally worth it!
#podcast suggestion:
I just started to listen to "Species", where every week Macken talks about a species of animal.
Unlike many other informative pieces of podcast I listened to, this is very entertaining, with fun bits of info and a very story like way of delivering juicy, hard checked facts.
I was captured from the very first episode, the Opossum.
uni acceptance speech hah
@logarithmic_function A bit late, but congratulations. I have a similar field of studies and passions.
I have no tips, just keep critical af about anything and keep us posted!
@CorioPsicologia
Gracias, va a ser un placer escuchar algo que no es en ingles! Si tienes mas podcasts en espanol, por favor
@Downes Thanks, I'll give those a try!
@Absinthe Oh, I did. Hilarious, I'm still at the first episodes though.
Thanks for the suggestion!
#Italian, PhD student in computational biology (#bioinformatics)
#atheist, #evolution lover, very bad #banjo player, very casual poster, I am glad whenever a feel a sincere human connection
I'm a mod here at #QOTO, feel free to reach out!