brain dead take.

tf does age have to do with any of this? you’re here replying too, how old are you? how are you pigeon holing the cartoon according to your own limited interpretation?

Have you ever come across thalidomide? Or asbestos? Or smoking? Or a laundry list of other such, some even genuinely well intentioned interventions, that have caused a small benefit yet a great harm which was only discovered half a generation later at times. I’m not even talking about the known harms caused in the name of profit.

With this, it would be kinda silly to say we haven’t been wrong at all for the past 120 years. I’m not knocking being wrong either, we can often learn much more from failures, especially failures of others if we are really smart. Science (of all kinds) has, does and always will progress in a trial and error, haphazard fashion despite all grand standing to otherwise. To deny others that same opportunity is hypocritical and ignorant.

/Ted talk

That is exactly how most research works and has always worked. Most major discoveries were not the direct result of tackling a problem head on but in fact a side effect of unrelated tinkering or discovering new uses for older research gathering dust. No one has a monopoly on the unpredictable nature of it and I find the sneering, gate keeping attitudes (portrayed in op) nauseating.

This is literally what researchers do and this is literally how civilisation has always progressed. Feel free to blindly suck dick at the altar of science like a momo but there are far too many examples of world renowned “experts” either missing the blindingly obvious or being entirely incorrect for me to take their word for it.

Beards are makeup for men, change my mind.

For real! They mind their own business and keep your house clean of the real pests.

Most bugs are chill imo, they just want a place to hang and mind their own business. Flies, mosquitos and ticks get exterminated on sight however.

So it is reproducible horseshit, got it.

My critique was not aimed at the scientific method itself nor at constraints faced by researchers. I was aiming more towards the sneering attitude that published research is the only valid method of drawing a conclusion, especially at the person level.

Like most published research isn’t unreproducible horseshit mostly there because of name dropping or dollars.

A have never even touched the game but this is how you do a live service! There is so much excitement and enthusiasm around this game that even a non-player like me can feel it.