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"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard" (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by interolivary@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org

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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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[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

I think she leaned a bit too heavily onto the notion that string theorists, as a whole, were lying. I think more likely they genuinely thought they were on to something. They may have been wrong but they didn't think they were wrong. A lie is deliberate misinformation, not simply being mistaken.

[-] admin@science.social 2 points 1 year ago

@FaceDeer @interolivary What is this in relation to? I am still trying to figure out mastodon

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

@admin I'm viewing this thread from a kbin instance, not Mastodon. It's a threaded discussion in the style of Reddit. https://kbin.social/m/science@beehaw.org/t/91867/string-theory-lied-to-us-and-now-science-communication-is should show it as I'm seeing it. The community is actually on beehaw.org, so it's posted via Lemmy.

I know that Kbin and Mastodon interact, but honestly I'm a little unclear on the details myself. I thought I had to go to the "microblogging" tab for the Mastodon stuff.

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've got an account on kbin too, just out of curiosity. Mastodon posts (what's the Mastodon equivalent of a tweet?) end up over on microblogging, but people on Mastodon can see "regular" posts too so they are often in the comments.

No idea how these comments show up on Mastodon, I don't use it. "Microblogging" just isn't my thing