#methodolatry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #methodolatry, aggregated by home.social.
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@nitpicking @StopForTea @gorskon Since #Science is #EvidenceBased and your handle is 'nitpicking', my first impulse was to not play #WhackAMole semantics. But the concept of #methodolatry is worthy of some discussion.
#MastersOfTheAtomicDomain (chemists) have seen methods come and go over the centuries - even millennia if you start with Democritus.
Chemists who 'idolize' methods that they were trained on, and said new methods "are not sporting", are rightly seen as #dinosaurs.