03/2021#
The slippery slope: Updated 03/03/21
Objective
Rigorous
Error (Process)
Sloppy (Reviewers)
Fraud (Investigators)
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Tayebwa, Anita
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Instanbul, Turkey
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Michael B
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The first, purely theoretical, article was written by Watson and Crick from the University of Cambridge. Immediately following this article were two data-rich papers by researchers from King’s College London: one by Maurice Wilkins and two colleagues, the other by Franklin and a PhD student, Ray Gosling.
Deductive (Watson and Crick) —> One offspring battles with Schizophrenia; Cognitive Power
Inductive (Franklin and Wilkins) —> Typical career professionals in their brood; Sensory Power
?? —> ??; Rhetorical Power
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I can’t stand Tyler Perry’s art
Do recognize the strength of the “School of Resentment”
Power in numbers.. of the normal distribution
Not my aesthetic
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The show is called “Sisters”, but the TRUE sisters are the dudes!
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March 9, 2021
Abideth these three: sensory, cognitive, and rhetorical power.
The greatest of all is —
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Oprah is a hardly surprising phenomenon
You can say of the sensory, cognitive, rhetorical
Those who have been chained have developed
Most advanced cognitive powers
And these have been filled by the passions
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Friendship between Tyler Perry and Oprah
Can be deduced to be founded on this
A resonance that strikes quite deeply
Having survived as double-minorities
School of resentment has no higher priests
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Robustness can’t be measured?
How about time taken to run a mile?
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Video conferencing relighting from
Lumecube??
Yup -/ gotta get it
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Lyrics and music have never been better-matched:
Out to tour the places he would not
And some you never knew would get you hot
Nothin’ is forbidden when we touch
Watch Madea’s farewell for vivid portrayal of case
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How to make background blurry on Zoom
I like this!!!
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Like in Molier’s 1670 play Le bourgeois gentilhomme, when Mr. Jourdain is surprised and delighted to learn that he has been speaking prose all his life without knowing it, many scientists such as Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking are practicing philosophy without knowing. They discourse on ontology (the nature of things), epistemology (the nature of knowledge), identity, change, causality, necessity and the entire range of issues that one might rightly describe as metaphysics.
Einstein, in a lecture delivered to the Nordic Assembly of Naturalists at Gothenburg, in lieu of his Nobel Lecture on the photoelectric effect, states the following at the outset:
“If we consider that part of the theory of relative which may nowadays in a sense be regarded as bona fide scientific knowledge, we note two aspects which have a major bearing on this theory. The whole development of the theory turns on the question of whether there are physically preferred stats of motion in Nature (physical relativity problem). Also, concepts and distinctions are only admissible to the extent that observable facts cam be assigned to them without ambiguity (stipulation that concepts and distinctions should have meaning). This postulate, pertaining to epistemology, proves to be of fundamental importance.“ (1)
The prominent Einstein consciously practiced philosophy, explicitly conducted thought experiments, brought the rigor of metaphysics to bear upon untenable assumptions that had dogged the world of classical physics since the time of Newton, and set off a scientific and technological revolution that is still in its infancy today. Technology is still playing “catchup” with the insights articulated by Einstein between 1905 and 1935.
Such dependency between metaphysical concepts and empirical verification is not in any way opposed to Feyman’s conceptualization of the scientific enterprise: postulates, precise predictions, verification (or failure), revision of the postulates, etc. In my final project on the revolution of Organ Transplantation, the “concept” of replacing a failed human organ with a functioning one from an animal, identical twin, full-sibling, parent, or non-biological relative started just as that — a concept. How identical the allograft has to be to the recipient, such as with regard to HLA-DR and immunogenetics, is a matter of metaphysics. Whether such HLA-identity is necessary. Whether such an allograft will survive for a few days or more. Whether the immune rejection of the organ is an ontological fact, or whether it can be changed by immunosuppressive therapy. Whether one can find a donor with identical HLA (i.e., what we now know epistemologically as “neccessary” through tissue typing vs. identical twin in our earlier, more naive epistemology). All these are metaphysical questions the field of transplant grappled with in its early days and still does today. Whether or not transplant professionals are aware they are prating philosophy is one thing. But the fact is that they are.
A conscious recognition of this fact may give science the sort of impetus and razor-focus that Einstein had. Maybe the slow progress of science is symptomatic of the neglect of philosophy among prominent modern scientists. We find ourselves “reinventing the wheel“ of metaphysics, unwittingly, like Mr. Jourdain.
References
1. Einstein, A. Fundamental ideas and problems of the theory of relativity. July 11, 1923. https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/einstein-lecture.pdf
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“The earth has been a madhouse”, he says in the Genealogy of Morals, and otherworldly philosophers, along with priests, theologians, and others, have played a large a part in making it so. Such claims demand rigorous scrutiny, so it’s pleasing that in the book under review Nietzsche’s account of ressentiment is carefully investigated and diligently analyzed.
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“By your patience, Aunchient Pistol. Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore his eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind; and she is painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which is the moral of it, that she is turning, and inconstant, and mutability, and variation; and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. In good truth, the poet makes a most excellent description of it. Fortune is an excellent moral.”
Excerpt From
Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
https://books.apple.com/us/book/works-of-william-shakespeare/id370188174
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—Sensory vs otherness/Ascetic-Weak
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
—Cognitive vs metaphysics/Ressentiment
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath love’s mind of any judgment taste
— Motor vs rhetoric/Peacetime
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste
Excerpt From
Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
https://books.apple.com/us/book/works-of-william-shakespeare/id370188174
This material may be protected by copyright.
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Statistics is at the interface of science and its concerns with precision
—- Zeger
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Lin Wang, doctoral thesis!!!
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Shakespeare sacrificed Sir John Falstaff after only two plays (plus merry wives of Windsor)
Tyler Perry only sacrificed Ms. Mabel “Madea” Simmons after 30 plays, films, and TV shows
One insisted on the development of Harry the Prince of Wales from a rascal to a dutiful Henry V. The other is totally stunted — perhaps also harming his audience? Or merely putting a mirror up to it?
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Here feel we not the penalty of Adam?
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He that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred
— As You Like It
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For ever and a day
— As You Like It
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Counterfeit
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Look up his publications, they touch on multilevel models and Scot Zeger
Alessandro Orlando, MPH PhD Candidate (Joe Coresh)
Update/Progress = Evidence/Likelihood * Prior/Intuition
Overcoming = Man*Beast
Thats awesome!