It’s Flashcards Friday, and today I want to talk about something that matters as much as any experiment: how we talk to people who do not trust science. Not how to win an argument. Not how to humiliate someone with a fact. How to build a bridge. Because science does not spread by volume. It spreads when people feel safe
In the 1600s, philosopher Thomas Hobbes and experimental scientist Robert Boyle clashed over a strange new machine, the air pump, and a dangerous question: when should society trust scientific claims, and who gets to decide? Their disagreement wasn’t just about experiments …
How ironic that the science industry is dominated by men, considering the term “scientist” was introduced by a woman.
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Today, I travel back to the nineteenth century to meet with Pierre-Simon Laplace, a man who imagined a super-intelligence so powerful, it could calculate the entire history and future of the universe.