poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the “reblog things forever” website
Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they’re just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it’s fake by trying to replicate their results
Yeah actually I just discovered how to turn plastic into gold. Oh you want to know how I did it
there’s a sense in which the NYT and the broader center-liberal establishment they cater to are interested in the idea of science more than anything about its process or results, so if a credible study or set of studies challenges the established scientific doctrine, they will not report on it until it’s reached sufficient critical mass that the institutions determining the established doctrine have responded to it.
and this is almost the exact opposite of how you would want a media organization to operate in practice
Fascinating, the opposite of the “science journalism loses its mind thinking warp drives and time machines are real from random musings at a conference” complaint about science journalism
I think these are broadly the same issue (lack of basic understanding of the literature) from opposite directions, one prioritizing sensationalism to drive clicks and one prioritizing reflexively taking the institutional view. Certainly people are justified in preferring the latter to the former but both of them are pretty miserable imo
This reminds me of Feyerabend’s comments on the trial of Galileo and how his prosecutor Cardinal Bellarmine wasn’t a blind zealot but a fairly intellectual man who asked some fair questions (eg; how do we know the telescope observations are not a distortion) and could be considered to be more comparable to institutionalized conservative-temperament science than say creationists
Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.
«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she’s wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain
1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men’s haori with western lapels
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