[HN Gopher] Charles Darwin and Associates, Ghostbusters (1996)
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       Charles Darwin and Associates, Ghostbusters (1996)
        
       Author : birriel
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2024-10-19 03:08 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
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       | jonhohle wrote:
       | It was interesting to see the prejudices of the naturalists
       | impeding earned benefits and ostracizing their of one of their
       | own with slightly different opinions. That, soon followed by
       | being duped themselves.
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       | I'm not sure what may have been going on within scientific
       | communities in 1996, but there seem to be many parallels to 2020.
        
         | cubefox wrote:
         | > I'm not sure what may have been going on within scientific
         | communities in 1996, but there seem to be many parallels to
         | 2020.
         | 
         | Did you mean to write this?
         | 
         | "I'm not sure what may have been going on within scientific
         | communities in 1876, but there seem to be many parallels to
         | 2024."
        
       | swayvil wrote:
       | "The herd is right" is an emotion that's been with us since
       | before we left the sea. The rest is just rationalization and
       | modernization. Any invertebrate can defend the consensus. And
       | they do it with the greatest of zeal.
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       | It takes rare vision and spine to press the alternative.
        
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