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Cake day: October 12th, 2023

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  • The entire enterprise is political. You have to claim you’re an authority first by creating an argument and then defending that claim. That is politics.

    The time it takes to learn about a subject costs a fair amount of money. The people with money, by and large, aren’t experts. They need to be convinced by the claimant that they deserve the money because they are experts and able to do something valuable with that money. This is politics.

    This idealized views of science knowledge creation is a thin investigation into the social and political aspects of science. It makes no room for starts, transitions, different levels of expertise, or old experts, often revered in the field, defending their positions because of their political status in the field.

    Addressing these issues at depth take time and is exhausting when dealing with the self assured idealist.