A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
This guy should learn to view science more like a constructivist. Pretty much everything in science is just something we made up that mostly aligns with the natural world, and just because one model is less accurate than another does not mean it's no longer useful.
We didn't abandon Newtonion physics when Einstein's model was proven for instance, since Newtonian physics is still very useful, and much easier to use compared to others.
We didn’t abandon Newtonion physics when we accepted Einstein’s model ~~was proven~~
I wasn't familiar with the term, but I always (until this moment) assumed that everybody viewed science that way.
The amount of people who think that scientists don't understand how bees fly is evidence that most people don't have this world view. As if someone would see a bee flying, not only having been around for eons, but a very common creature most people are familiar with, would just throw their hands up and say "WHOA! THIS VIOLATES ALL THE LAWS OF PHYSICS! THIS SHOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE!"
this sounds like the kinda thing that I (uneducated in this topic) would go "heh.. yeah.." and upvote not understanding the joke
then I open comments and it's actually about tossing toddlers into a volcano and I am immediately sentenced with the guilt of upvoting a meme about child volcano sacrifice and I have to come to terms about how I am a horrible person who will blindly follow someones agenda because they were using big words and I am actually incredibly foolish and don't deserve an opinion about anything ever..
or it's just an extremely nerdy joke that nobody really understands but upvotes anyways
Same.
I was like oh it makes sense that there would be different types of protein. Here I go into the comments to increase the fidelity of my mental model! rofl guess not
no you were right the first time
My standard response to that kind of statement is 'Good for you. Have a cookie.'
My standard response is I would like to know more
Fucking what? Is he suggesting "protien" is a social construct?
No he's suggesting he's completely confused and is going to tune out.
go back to your harry potter fan fiction