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20th century science gave rise to some truly mind-blowing concepts

20th century science gave rise to some truly mind-blowing concepts

Benjamin Labatut – When we cease to understand the world

A highly entertaining fictionalized history of landmark scientific breakthroughs.

The combination of vested interests in theoretical physics and experimental energy limits leads to bad science

The combination of vested interests in theoretical physics and experimental energy limits leads to bad science

Sabine Hossenfelder – Lost in math

The author stresses that following negative results of experiments, theories are typically watered-down just to the extent that they are untestable – reminiscent of Bruno Latour’s “social constructionof scientific facts”

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