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This is what conspiracy theorists don’t get. The world’s scientists are not skeptical of your claims that water has secret spiritual memory because they hate you, they are skeptical because the claim you make, if it were true, would be so important and world-changing that they want to be absolutely sure of it before they endorse it.

The difference is that, to a scientist, “this would be amazing if it were true” is not a good reason to believe it anyway

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Just because no one else has said, Adam has been involved in EFF for a long time. EEF Podcast episode with him in it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/podcast-episode-making-hope-adam-savage

Which delights me as he’s more mainstream and so wakes people up to things like the Right To Repair movement.

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EFF?

Edit: Electronic Frontier Foundation, apparently.

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Yep, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Key players in Right To Repair in the US. With good history of “fighting for the user”.

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I wish more people in general would be OK with being wrong. Noone ever learned something new without knowing they’d been wrong

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Remember kids: The difference between science and screwing around is writing things down.

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Remember kids: publishing negative results is hard.

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But super important and not done enough! Disproving something can save humanity such time.

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There’s a bit more to it than that

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Yes. Being exploited by greedy publishers and a failing academia system, while barely making a living for example.

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“Failure is always an option.”

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