tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post5632951144525118641..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: Mothers on Parade TheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-61667634646276532862019-05-14T10:07:31.806-04:002019-05-14T10:07:31.806-04:00Ahoy, there, TOF! Good to see you active* again.
...Ahoy, there, TOF! Good to see you active* again.<br /><br />Question: are you familiar with the Slate Star Codex blog? This author's had some good posts on science and problems in some modern practices, the replication crisis and so on. For example, this recent post on how lots of claims were made for the influence of one gene, turning out to based on not very good evidence: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-review/. But then he links to a previous post, a discussion at the level of wanting to think about the scientific method, of how to think about thinking about science (https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/). And then this smart writer gives his story of the history of science, in which the fulcrum point is given as follows:<br /><br />'And then Galileo said “Wait a second, instead of debating exactly how objects fall, let’s just drop objects off of something really tall and see what happens”, and after that, Science.'<br /><br />It sounds like something right up your alley, about how there are prior deep philosophical issues at play, and if one is blind to them all attempts to shore up the method will just be flailing about. I wonder if you'd be interested in writing a response to his posts?<br /><br />* in the sense of posting stuff online-- I hope you're doing well in real life too!Basil Stag Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05249972715160411934noreply@blogger.com