That's why it is sometimes necessary to get inside the community.
Don't tell Nature Genetics but I am a telecoms engineer who stopped
doing biology at 14 because I wanted to do music instead, and wheedled
my way into a university Life Sciences dept many years later when I was
made redundant
Experts are much more likely to accept criticism from fellow experts within
their community than from experts outside their community.
For example egyptologists who present themselves as experts on the Sphinx
and the Pyramids don't want to hear the geological and climatological
arguments that the
I hesitate to say this, but I think Julia may be wrong. I think it
would be better to say that people (including scientists) are sometimes
wrong.
To say that people (including scientists) are often wrong gives rise to
the problems we now have with people distrusting the science of
Quote of the Day
“People will defend their scientific claims until their death. As scientists,
we should be aware that people are often wrong.”
— Julia Rohrer, one of the researchers working on the Loss of Confidence
Project, a website where psychologists can report flaws in their own work.
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