Category: Modern science
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"Our theoretical understanding"...
"Improvements of our theoretical understanding of the material world..." This is the beginning of a phD thesis in a big university in the US. (Princeton, ProQuest number 22587372) Funny. We started from a real knowledge of the cosmos. By living in it. Then we moved on to understanding it. While standing aside. We seek knowledge.…
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![Science: This beautiful whore! [From the Reproducibility crisis to Epstein connections]](https://harmoniaphilosophica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-sky-sun-sunset-2825478-960x260.jpg)
Science: This beautiful whore! [From the Reproducibility crisis to Epstein connections]
In Greece (and many other countries) there is a saying: After going to the doctor, always go to a second one to get a second opinion! This public wisdom has been so much embedded in our everyday life that we do not even consider it as something special. And yet, this simple but highly intuitive…
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Technology works! Science works! Well, NOT QUITE... (Technology and Science do NOT work!)
Science and technology are for any the jewels in the crown of modern civilization. Their success reflects to the western culture and the nations which embrace them, their glory reflects to modern society and the modern way of thinking. We live better, we think better, we are better humans! And what better argument for that, than to show to…
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Unethical f***ing science!
Swearing is actually a sign of more intelligence - not less - say scientists. (source) In a controversial move, a senior US scientific committee has given the green light to one of the most contentious forms of genome editing: where genetic changes made to human embryos will then be inherited by following generations. For the…
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Astronomy. “Small” big errors. Science as the king. Forever! No matter what! (really, everything goes!!!)
49 Lib, a relatively bright star in the southern sky, is twelve billion years old rather than just 2.3 billion. For many decades, researchers were stumped by conflicting data pertaining to this celestial body, because they had estimated it as much younger than it really is. Determining its age anew, astronomers have now successfully resolved…
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