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Sunday, December 26, 2021

Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous

"Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous.  They are human; they are marred by the biases humans have. Perhaps even more. ... It is said that science evolves from (scientist) funeral to (scientist) funeral."   Nassim Taleb, from "Fooled By Randomness, second edition, page 225