Needle in the Hay Sense-Making - Drs. M.S. DeLay & A.V. Bendebury DSPod #267

The last few weeks we've had some really explosive theories on
the show, which have caused a stir in the comments and beyond. We
sit down to talk about the philosophy behind why we believe
exploring far out theories is so important, and use Paul
Feyerabend's Against Method as the backbone for our
discussion. We introduce the idea of scientific anarchy, which
encourages us to lean into the uncomfortable reality that ideas
cannot be prized simply because of their age, or their apparent
agreement with existing data. The history of science is littered
with theories that were wrong but useful, detectors that are
engineered to give us the results we are expecting, and the
weighty knowledge that the absence of evidence tells us nothing
about what we'll find when we take a closer look at the inner
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(00:00) Go! (00:09:56) Podcast insider conspiracy theories
(00:16:10) Surrendering to being a useful idiot (00:20:55)
becoming a valuable mouthpiece (00:23:48) Patronage of the
billionaire king (00:28:24) Two types of conspiracies (00:35:48)
Can a free internet rise again? (00:44:35) Monoliths vs chaos,
enter Paul Feyerabend (00:48:56) Heuristics and other cognitive
offloads (00:55:08) Calcifying opinion into fact (00:58:02)
Science is a historical process (01:01:37) Subservience of
science to technology (01:04:31) Why Michael Hudson doesn't take
libertarians seriously (01:06:49) Handling non-human entities
(01:09:40) Triggering the psychological immune system (01:14:06)
Counter-rule science (01:17:07) The approach of the Platonic
Redditor (01:21:49) An argument for scientific anarchy (01:26:25)
All theories have a little bit of gold (01:29:18) Does the buck
stop anywhere? (01:35:45) All models suck, but I want to believe
(01:41:39) Searching for the needle in the hay (01:47:26) Closing
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