• frostmore@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      well it still goes back to the original arguement that it has to be published and reproducible.

      else it would be forgotten and “re-discovered” again at a later stage.

      some scientific discoveries of the mordern era were actually discovered by earlier ancient people before mordern science started recording such discoveries.

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        6 months ago

        The second, implied part, is that writing it down is for OTHER people to learn from.

        So, although I hate the eletist gatekeeping language… I think I agree more with the professional scientist than I do the professional clown.

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        6 months ago

        Corollary: If it can’t be reproduced you’ve failed to write down something critical.