Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met 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 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.
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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 and will then spend the rest of the day sobbing with joy because someone else wanted to read their paper.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
Oh, I know a LOT of scientists who don't want to know an important fact or two!
Fact 1: The genetic clock of a species and its line of ancestry is NOT automatically the same as its generation to generation mutation rate, and cannot be assumed to be so.
Fact 2: The 1,500 fossil individuals known form Africa between 2 & 4.5 million years old, all supposed to be nearer the human lineage than the chimp or human lineage, are not. Many are chimp or gorilla ancestors.
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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 It's one of those statements that tries to sound really smart or secretive, but instantly conveys that whatever follows is just as humbug.
