#scientificinquiry — Public Fediverse posts

"Born to the manor" seems to rub people the wrong way but without people putting a lifetime into developing values around honorable, ethical service then all that remains of democracy is oligarchy and tribalism; all that remains of law is witch trials; all that remains of scientific inquiry is corporate flacks.

#ProfessionalEthics #RuleOfLaw #ScientificInquiry #InstitutionalIntegrity #AntiCorruption #EthicalService #DemocraticNorms #EliteCapture #PublicTrust #InstitutionalIntegrity #Oligarchy #DemocraticNorms #Expertise #InstitutionalFailure #ClimateScience #Lawfare

Is it aliens? Here's why that's the least important question about 3I/ATLAS.
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=is-it-aliens-heres-why-thats-the-least-important-question-about-3iatlas
"Beyond Aliens: Unveiling the Secrets of 3I/ATLAS"
#space #astronomy #interstellarobjects #scientificinquiry

🎉 Ah, the pinnacle of scientific inquiry: studying inebriated humans while wrestling with the modern-day sorcery of #JavaScript and cookie settings 🍪🔮. Because nothing says cutting-edge #research like a browser error message. 🙄
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/03/how-to-study-people-who-are-very-drunk #scientificinquiry #inebriatedhumans #cookies #browsererrors #HackerNews #ngated

A great example of what seems to be the ever worsening uphill battle for scientists, scientific skeptics, and folks just trying to appreciate the wonder of our natural (not supernatural) world. - Local free range sun? - https://youtu.be/bhkcLOSkTP0?si=iM-sFr6ksz0QUHTt #ScientificSkepticism #ScienceLiteracy #CriticalThinking #ScientificInquiry #SGU #SkepticsGuide #SkepticsGuideToTheUniverse

A great example of what seems to be the ever worsening uphill battle for scientists, scientific skeptics, and folks just trying to appreciate the wonder of our natural (not supernatural) world. - Local free range sun? - https://youtu.be/bhkcLOSkTP0?si=iM-sFr6ksz0QUHTt #ScientificSkepticism #ScienceLiteracy #CriticalThinking #ScientificInquiry #SGU #SkepticsGuide #SkepticsGuideToTheUniverse

A great example of what seems to be the ever worsening uphill battle for scientists, scientific skeptics, and folks just trying to appreciate the wonder of our natural (not supernatural) world. - Local free range sun? - https://youtu.be/bhkcLOSkTP0?si=iM-sFr6ksz0QUHTt #ScientificSkepticism #ScienceLiteracy #CriticalThinking #ScientificInquiry #SGU #SkepticsGuide #SkepticsGuideToTheUniverse

A great example of what seems to be the ever worsening uphill battle for scientists, scientific skeptics, and folks just trying to appreciate the wonder of our natural (not supernatural) world. - Local free range sun? - https://youtu.be/bhkcLOSkTP0?si=iM-sFr6ksz0QUHTt #ScientificSkepticism #ScienceLiteracy #CriticalThinking #ScientificInquiry #SGU #SkepticsGuide #SkepticsGuideToTheUniverse

A great example of what seems to be the ever worsening uphill battle for scientists, scientific skeptics, and folks just trying to appreciate the wonder of our natural (not supernatural) world. - Local free range sun? - https://youtu.be/bhkcLOSkTP0?si=iM-sFr6ksz0QUHTt #ScientificSkepticism #ScienceLiteracy #CriticalThinking #ScientificInquiry #SGU #SkepticsGuide #SkepticsGuideToTheUniverse

@glyph
I hear you.

My favourite (perhaps less jarring?) example is when a court declares they have found someone guilty, and that their threshold of guilt is "on balance of odds".

I look at the lawyers and the witnesses and realise that none of them has studied actuarial or probability mathematics. I wouldn't even trust them to understand a bet on the horses. For a scientist to watch them is like observing a cargo cult. Worse, I am sure, is for a scientist to find themselves on the receiving end of such a court.

I would offer the meagre consolation that you can see the feedback loops that drive them to behave so, where they think themselves to have free will.

#cybernetics #actuarial #odds #maths #math #statistics #science #scientificInquiry #systemsArchitecture #justice #law #policing #cargoCult

An "Isolation Chamber" could be defined as an Echo Chamber of One, where external forces impose limitations on exposure to new ideas, perspectives, and meaningful dialogue.

#Physics #EchoChamber #IsolationChamber #ScientificInquiry #ThinkForYourself #AcademicFreedom #IntellectualPrison #ChallengeTheNorm #CriticalThinking #OpenScience #BeyondTheEquations #IndependentResearch #BreakTheCycle #KnowledgeShouldBeFree #ScienceDebate #TheoreticalPhysics #OutOfTheBoxThinking #ScientificRevolution