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AVincentInSpace@pawb.social âš5â© âšweeksâ© agoSemantic arguments (which, as you say, do not, ultimately, matter) aside, the point that the Twitter user in the post weâre commenting on was trying to make is that science is best when itâs shared, and that when the results of an experiment are not published, mankind is the lesser for not knowing them. The poster chose to do this in a somewhat drastic way by redefining âscienceâ to exclude experiments whose results were not shared. As many commenters on this post (including yourself) pointed out, this new definition is unnecessarily strict, and that there were much better alternative ways of making this point.
I do, however, agree with the point.
testfactor@lemmy.world âš5â© âšweeksâ© ago
Absolutely agreed with the sentiment. Collaboration is integral to most scientific endeavors. Especially in the modern era. I think weâre in the same page on that point.
But, like, if the person had asserted something like, âgrilled cheese is only grilled cheese when you eat it with tomato soup,â and then Elon responded with, âthatâs a dumb take, since you can totally have a good grilled cheese without tomato soup,â I donât think itâs âtotally owning himâ to list off a ton of reasons why you believe any grilled cheese without tomato soup is an invalid grilled cheese.
Like, we can all agree that grilled cheese is best with tomato soup. That doesnât change the fact that arbitrarily changing the definition of grilled cheese to be âonly when paired with tomato soup,â is actually just kinda dumb.