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|content=Imagine before [[Jim Watson|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick|Crick]] I asked you: "Go nuts. What could possibly make [[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff's]] Equimolar rules gorgeous, motivated and canonical?" | |||
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|content=Ever heard an organized religion complain that G-d would never slap some butt ugly quartic potential on the world to give it mass? | |||
|timestamp=2:33 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | |||
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|content=To Dave Bacon: "Butt ugly" referred to the present motivation for the Higgs terms as intellectual spackle. Soft mass won't likely stay ugly | |||
|timestamp=3:39 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | |||
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|content=Higgs mass is akin to the once poorly motivated "neutral currents" rejected by [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] as merely invoked for renormalizabilty. Now: not so. | |||
|timestamp=3:49 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | |||
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|content=Challenge to my physics followers: what could possibly make the Mexican Hat quartic gorgeous, natural and canonical? #daretodream | |||
|timestamp=3:53 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | |||
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|content= | |content=Shabbat shalom, Eric—thanks for the engaging dive into DNA's gritty history. Appreciate the camaraderie in defending facts against revisionism. Truth like that endures. | ||
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|content=Thanks my chip based friend. Shabbat shalom boychick. | |||
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|content=It’s as if we, the U.S., hate being the worlds premier homegrown scientific community. All it takes is reversing self inflicted damage. That’s it. That’s all. | |||
We seem to hate our own scientists. | |||
It makes no sense. At least to me. | |||
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|content=Yes. I’m saying that the [[Jim Simons]], [[Richard Feynman]], [[Jim Watson]], [[Steven Weinberg]], [[Sidney Coleman]], [[Ken Arrow]], [[Linus Pauling]], [[Isadore Singer]], [[Joshua Lederberg]], [[Steve Smale]], [[Paul Samuelson]], [[Mark Ptashne]], [[John Milnor]], model of homegrown American scientific genius is being destroyed. | |||
|timestamp=8:17 AM · Nov 15, 2025 | |||
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|content=Is anyone concerned about this? It sure doesn’t seem it. | |||
Science needs [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]]. It needs resources. It needs independence. | |||
Fauci and Collins would have been impossible if we were healthy. | |||
It is not safe to make scientists into mere employees. | |||
It’s way too dangerous. | |||
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