• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        So not at all based in science? Interesting as a historical curiosity but nothing more?

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          1 year ago

          Interesting because of the psychological insights into not how all people are, but how people make up theories in general. Same way religion has scientific significance in an anthropological sense.

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          1 year ago

          “I turned 5 pounds of lead into gold this morning using this one weird trick that chemists HATE! Subscribe to my premium substack to learn more!”

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          1 year ago

          They told us the history of alchemy in chemistry class, it’s good to know the context.

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      The problem is that we still don’t have a proper pattern recognition. We could discard all the soft sciences such as Economics, Sociology or Psychology.