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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • thought anitmatter was still mostly theoretical

    You thought wrong and that’s ok.

    I am skeptical they have a good handle on “antimatter”

    Which is more likely: you haven’t kept up to date on physics news, or the people who spend their lives doing physics don’t know what they’re doing? Be skeptical. But fix that by reading more. If someone is skeptical, but the answers exist and they stay skeptical, that’s just willful ignorance.

    every generation of experts claimed to have all of the answers

    No they haven’t. And no one is claiming that now.

    This isn’t skepticism. This is “I don’t understand, I don’t want to understand, but I want to feel smart so I’m going to say they’re not smart”.







  • Eh. It’s easy to be jaded about it, but that doesn’t make the study bad.

    You have a team of scientists who study kimchi for years and years. They tried it with Alzheimer’s and it failed. They tried it got weight loss and it failed. Eventually they find something that works.

    The real issue is that the group doesn’t seem trustworthy because they don’t publish their negative results. If they published both positive and negative, it’d be harder to claim they’re simply shills.