Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
You have that 100% wrong. Wealthy Viennese families were complaining that their adolescent daughters were making up stories about being molested by their fathers and uncles. Freud built an entire field around this idea of the id and subconscious desires rather than believe in child abuse. This book is written by a former Director of the Freud archives and explains the issue pretty well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assault_on_Truth
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Clearly you have never met stupid people. Lucky you.
Scotland and Poland seem awfully judgy.
La maladie Anglaise.
It’s pretty clear the French are to blame.
25 years ago our email was screened for keywords and manually reviewed if they registered a hit. Nothingburger.
It’s not like Penrose doesn’t get out of his depth pretty rapidly. I read The Emporer’s New Mind and my first reaction was has the guy never heard of a heuristic? Brains aren’t perfect Turing machines but sloppy approximaters that make “eh, good enough” decisions.
Art of the deal. /s
I knew drug company scientists who didn’t trust anything in academia for this reason. The incentives were aligned on the wrong side of dishonesty. If stuff didn’t work out in pharma you just moved on to the next idea.
We had a distiller in the department. We’d roll over a cart fill a carboy.
I had a labmate who insisted on ph testing distilled water. Not because he was concerned about contamination, but because it was part of the ritual.
Around here the telehandler is known as a zoom boom. And if you call it anything else you reveal yourself as full of book learning without any job experience.
I liked those shoes. Too bad.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/