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if it sounds good, that's good enough?
ozarque posts about her concern that scientific factoids are often treated like parables rather than like testable claims: "As long as it's sort of like an Aesop's Fable or a bible story, it doesn't matter whether a science account is actually true". Classic example: the number of words Eskimos have for snow. Recently revived example: the claim that ( Read more... )