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You all ready? Here we go.
Science doesn’t work by fiat, or by forced, fabricated consensus.
That consensus that you see before you? It’s a mirage. It’s a farce.
Science embraces all hypotheses, and says: let me at ‘em. [thread 1/30]
Science doesn’t work by fiat, or by forced, fabricated consensus.
That consensus that you see before you? It’s a mirage. It’s a farce.
Science embraces all hypotheses, and says: let me at ‘em. [thread 1/30]
Science does not require a lab coat, or fancy tech, or a big grant. Having a credential and using an authoritarian tone are *useful* for tamping down dissent, but “useful” and “truth-seeking” aren’t always the same, are they now? 2/
.@BretWeinstein & I have the credentials—evolutionary processes are central to zoonotic disease *and* gain-of-function research. But we lack the perverse incentives that might keep us quiet. Refusing to be bullied into a canoe turns out to be freeing. 3/
