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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If you science in a lab and no one is around to review it did you make a science?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The difference between science and fucking around is writing it down - Adam Savage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Corollary: If it can't be reproduced you've failed to write down something critical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The second, implied part, is that writing it down is for OTHER people to learn from.

So, although I hate the eletist gatekeeping language.. I think I agree more with the professional scientist than I do the professional clown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That is to say: it's fucking around and, if you're good at it, finding out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

well it still goes back to the original arguement that it has to be published and reproducible.

else it would be forgotten and re-discovered again at a later stage.

some scientific discoveries of the mordern era were actually discovered by earlier ancient people before mordern science started recording such discoveries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does it have to be a new discovery to qualify as "science"?