• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    Title text: I’M SORRY, FROM YOUR YEARS OF CONDESCENDING TOWARD THE ‘SQUISHY SCIENCES’, I ASSUMED YOU’D BE A LITTLE HARDER.

    As a former social sciences and history student, I sure wish people would actually want to use those fields’ results. Without trying to make things worse instead of better.

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      Uh-oh. As a shallow level science lover I’ve always liked and respected Feynman and how he has presented science to layfolk like myself. I’m expecting some disappointing information when I dig into this video tomorrow.

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        From watching the video, he’s a great and talented science communicator and a decent man (depending on if the divorce trial was mutually fabricated or real).

        But he’s a mid scientist that doesn’t really deserve to have his work compared to Einstein and Newton like he often is.

        He also made up a bunch of macho cool stories about himself that’s like Rick Sanchez mixed with an “Alpha Male”, and much like both it infected young guys for years to come.

        Also bongos.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    Chem just sitting there fucking sweating

    Edit: also biologist cant talk considering nazi experiments and unit 731

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      The point of the comic was made, and going on would just drag out the joke.

      The comic could equally be made with the chemists fighting famine.

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    You can’t just post XKCD without the title text.

    https://xkcd.com/1520/

    Title text: I’M SORRY, FROM YOUR YEARS OF CONDESCENDING TOWARD THE ‘SQUISHY SCIENCES’, I ASSUMED YOU’D BE A LITTLE HARDER.

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    Didn’t biologists help develop biological weapons? I don’t know if I’d hold this against physics. Science has been used for evil in all fields: physicists just discovered the world ending weapon first.