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"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard" (www.youtube.com)
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Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact, Michael Crichton (that one) coined that, Gell-Mann amnesia after Murray Gell-Mann, who had nothing to do with it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Less fun fact, Micheal Crichton was an active climate change denialist.

In one public debate his team argued so convincingly that the audience went from 57% believing climate change was a global crisis down to 46% after the debate.