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Intellectual Humility Has Recently Been Hailed as the Key to Thinking Well. The Story of Barbara McClintock Proves Otherwise
Rachel Fraseraeon.co
The danger of reductionist scientific narratives causing existential distress and the responsibility scientists have in their storytelling.
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I receive pretty much daily emails from people who say things like, I've read your paper. I now understand that I'm a collective of cells and furthermore a self-constructing or whatever. And I don't know what to do with myself. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm depressed.
I think we have to come to grips with the fact that some people
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