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RE: The Great GATC-by: The Most Famous Science Paper of the 20th Century

in #biology7 years ago

Much like with Edison, those with shere will-power to disgard social, legal, and ethical conventions tend to rise to the top. The reward model of our Western social matrix dispropotionately values firsts resulting in the gabs outshining the methodical, the patient, and the cautious. Whether such preference engenders the type of environment suited to intellectual discovery, the current devolution of research into the realm of pseudo-science and pseudo-intellectualism illustrates clearly.

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And, also, ya know, being a man helps.