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How Evidence Sometimes Loses Out to Emotion The AlphaMind Podcast with Brian Keating (#321)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
The Importance of Reputation in Science
I think back to the first kind of pioneer who was really a scientist but also a businessman and I talk about him a lot in my book losing the Nobel Prize is Galileo. He took that idea and basically plagiarized it in a sense made it better improved it and then kept it a secret so that he could extract maximum advantage from both his patrons which were the Medici family of Italy and also to leverage it into scientific fame notoriety and influence. What is the ultimate conferenced of prestige and influence it's the Nobel Prize there's no nothing else that's remotely close to it. People are brought down by their need to prove their rightness from down here their intellectually superior, says Richard Br
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