I like listening to her videos outside of physics, which I'm not very interested in, and her reasoning always seems lucid.I think the upshot of this would simply be that randomizing the order of a blind (or double-blind) test is probably a good idea.
As an aside, I trust this woman on psychology even less than I trust her on physics, which is not much. She's a bomb-thrower who believes in theories that I consider crackpot at best, namely superdeterminism, which many consider to be a poison pill for the entire concept of science, let alone physics.
Once she strays outside her actual specialty, she's... not smart (I'm assuming she knows something about quantum gravity and cosmology, but I'm not adept enough to judge). She's wandered into mine a few times and absolutely beclowned herself. I am constantly reminded of Gell-Mann amnesia.I think the upshot of this would simply be that randomizing the order of a blind (or double-blind) test is probably a good idea.
As an aside, I trust this woman on psychology even less than I trust her on physics, which is not much. She's a bomb-thrower who believes in theories that I consider crackpot at best, namely superdeterminism, which many consider to be a poison pill for the entire concept of science, let alone physics.
I'd like to be able to claim "informed but non-expert"...are you making informed but non-expert points? The latter doesn't make your argument invalid. I'd put myself in that category for most of my posts here.
Are you saying that she is incapable of the reasoning necessary for science generally?
Can you give an example? What's your specialty?She's wandered into mine a few times and absolutely beclowned herself.
Thanks. I'll check those out.I'd like to be able to claim "informed but non-expert"...
I just find the concept of superdeterminism to be crazy on its face. It basically asserts that outcomes cause their own causes through some unknown mechanism that is often referred to by scientists as a "conspiracy". No joke, superdeterminism implies that maybe cancer risk isn't random, maybe you engage in risky behaviors because you're going to get cancer. If that doesn't sound like it makes sense, well... I agree.
In my non-physicist opinion, it's a worldview that gives up on the entire concept of science as we know it. I can't explain it that well, but this article gives a pretty good explanation: https://bigthink.com/hard-science/superdeterminism-free-will/ and this one is shorter: https://mateusaraujo.info/2019/12/17/superdeterminism-is-unscientific/
I also don't really like her constant carping about particle physics not solving quantum gravity yet. I guess discovering the higgs boson was not enough for her and she thinks that entire branch of inquiry is a dead end. That's an OK opinion to have among professionals, but she's been loud about it to the general public, which is already much too inclined (IMO) to paint normal scientists as grifters, liars, and incompetents. I don't find her engaging in that type of rhetoric (even by second degree) to be helpful.
Not at all, she's probably a pretty competent scientist in most ways. I don't have any real reason to think otherwise. I just think superdeterminism is just as much pseudoscience as she says many-worlds is, and I don't care for her general attitude. She's like another Michio Kaku with an axe to grind.
I think this article is reasonably well-written, but I don't think this kind of statement is uncontroversial:Can you give an example? What's your specialty?
Thanks. I'll check those out.
I thought this was a well done popular science piece she wrote: https://nautil.us/the-trouble-with-the-big-bang-238547/
the cosmic microwave background emerged long after the Big Bang Event, if the Big Bang Event happened. The cosmic microwave background is merely evidence for the expansion of the universe
You can't help it.I just find the concept of superdeterminism to be crazy on its face.
Her recent rant about plastic on YouTube, for one. Polymer science is one of my specialties and I've won several million in grants from NIH to study their environmental and health effects.Can you give an example?
You can't help it.
Pardon my terrible tautology joke: I will slap my own forehead....