Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.

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    I didn’t see it as her being angry at the ones 40 years ago, but the ones who continued the hype even though it was obvious string theory wasn’t falsifiable

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      The ones who were human and were full of hubris and errors and didn’t want to give up their pet theory?

      Being angry at humans for being human is kinda futile. Humans have always done this, and always will.

      And the excited physicists didn’t destroy science communication any more than Stephen Jay Gould did. People can be wrong. People can cling to things they cherish and that they poured their heart and years of effort into.

      People are people, and this too shall pass.

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        It’s also very human to commit murder; humans have always committed murder, and always will. That doesn’t mean I can’t be mad at someone for doing it…

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          I think murder might be a leeeeeeeetle bit different than refusing to give up on a theory you worked on for 30 or 40 years.

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            My point is that saying you can’t hold something against someone because it’s human nature isn’t a reasonable argument.