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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are Physicists Human?

Physicists are so susceptible to the same biases of what's the right one that their theories almost become like religion to them. Even though they've been trained to be able to falsify their own work, right? They're really bad about it. People do become both attached and anti attached to ideas. And it is just part of being human. Well, it's also what drives them to make great discovery. So I think if we didn't have that, we probably would have not made some of the great discoveries.

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