Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
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Perhaps a truer line might be
"Scientific journals don't want you to know this fact... without paying for it."
I recall seeing a scientist here saying how they're willing to provide free copies of their paper upon request, avoiding this cost to the reader.
This, of course, supports your hypothesis about scientists sharing.
In my experience when someone says "scientists don't want you to know" what they are really saying is "science doesn't support my crackpot theory"
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
A related joke (originally about engineers):
Scientists make terrible magicians because they always want to explain how the trick works before they show it to you.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
Marie Curie always just glowed when she talked about her work.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya Scientists are people. Some are notoriously secretive (Tesla,) while others can’t seem to shut up (Kaku.) Some work where they aren’t allowed to share (pharmaceuticals,) and some must “publish or perish. (Academia)
Most likely to overshare: science educators and popularizers. Least likely: researchers on the edge of esoteric disciplines.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
TBF, I haven't come across an individual IRL who made this claim.
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Perhaps a truer line might be
"Scientific journals don't want you to know this fact... without paying for it."
I recall seeing a scientist here saying how they're willing to provide free copies of their paper upon request, avoiding this cost to the reader.
This, of course, supports your hypothesis about scientists sharing.
@johnlogic @neuronakaya Scientist will be happy as hell to give you a free copy and answer any questions. We are oversharers!
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya "scientologists don't want you to know this fact..." more likely.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
whether or not they've met scientists is irrelevant. they're still getting paid to write the click-bait headline.
more likely, it's an llm doing the writing and the poor guy who may or may not have met a scientist is out on his ass.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" is about to sell you 'supplements'.
It's funny how misrepresenting prescription drugs is illegal, but you are allowed to flagrantly lie your ass off about 'supplements'.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya
I was hungry and sat next to a scientist at lunch and he wouldn’t share anything -
Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya all we need is a beer that doesn't make you fat but scientists "No! We want to know if there's life on Mars."
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya and prolific over sharers I would say...
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya And they certainly never 100% agree on anything
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya my mother is a scientist
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya
If you ask one to explain their work, it's often hard to get them to stop talking. -
@neuronakaya Corollary:
Anyone saying "(Phenomenon/Thing) defies physics" is about to get an earful from a physicist.
@redrummy unless it's a specific example of something that defies physics for educational purposes like Maxwell's daemon. @neuronakaya
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A related joke (originally about engineers):
Scientists make terrible magicians because they always want to explain how the trick works before they show it to you.
@darth_hideout @neuronakaya That's because you won't understand how awesome it is otherwise...
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya the idea that scientists ‘don’t want you to know a fact’ is statistically incompatible with their behavior
they publish ~2.5m papers/yr, upload 200k+ preprints, make >3m figures, and generate so many supplements that journals added file‑size limits because people kept submitting appendices the size of small video games
i once heard of 14gb of raw data uploaded ‘in case someone might care.’
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya
Exactly. Most scientists seem more eager to share knowledge than hide it. -
Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya in my experience the only thing scientists don’t want you to know is they put on mismatched socks this morning and they’re still going to tell you that anyway.
