Scientific Freedom

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1. skadamatSep 2024
   The world needs powerful new ideas and people willing to bring those ideas to everyone through creation of products and services. We need BOTH but it's getting harder to build a career focusing on inventing and discovering new ideas nowadays unfortunately.

   This is documented super well in this book (published by Stripe Press!): https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Freedom-Civilization-Donal...

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2. skadamatMar 2024
   Highly recommend reading Scientific Freedom (published by Stripe Press in fact) which touches on the important topic of the shrinking freedom in professionalized scientific research:

   https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Freedom-Civilization-Donal...

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3. skadamatFeb 2024
   Donald Braben's book touches on what's changed pretty well I felt (published by Stripe press too): https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Freedom-Civilization-Donal...
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4. deepnotderpDec 2020
   One of the best books in this area I've read is "Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization"
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5. philipsFeb 2021
   Everytime I see someone claim they know what effect something will have on human caused climate change I think of this quote.

   "This does not mean that I advocate inaction. For example, in the absence of understanding, it would be irresponsible to continue injecting large and rising amounts of greenhouse gases such as CO2 into the atmosphere. They should be reduced, of course, or at least not increased until we are reasonably sure that we know what we are doing." (Donald W. Braben, Scientific Freedom)

   I wish everyone would consider that changing the fundamental makeup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere without any idea how we might reverse it is a pretty rash thing to do.

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