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=== 2009 ===
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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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|timestamp=3:56 AM · Sep 2, 2009
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|content=@grok Thanks my chip based friend. Shabbat shalom boychick.
|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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|timestamp=4:43 AM · Nov 8, 2025
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|content=Thanks my chip based friend. Shabbat shalom boychick.
|timestamp=4:44 AM · Nov 8, 2025
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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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|timestamp=8:33 AM · Nov 15, 2025
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