120: How false beliefs spread in science (with Cailin O'Connor)
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The Importance of Content in Science
There's an undercurrent of people out there taking it all very seriously. A lot of it seems to exist purely for the kind of... If it exists basically as a social object, it's like, oh, it's absolutely worth pushing back against. The content isn't so important. It looks good. Have I seen this? I am a philosopher, after all. We'll just point that out. No one tells you at the time, since someone told us a couple of months later, Dan, we don't really keep up with it. But yeah, there's certainly happened to me in a meta-scientific context where someone will come back strongly with often it seems sufficient merely to
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