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Confessions of a Disillusioned Scientist | Do the Math

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After a rocket ride through science, I am hanging up the gloves, feeling a little ashamed and embarrassed to have devoted so much of my life to what I now see as a misguided cause that has done more harm than good in this world.

AI-generated stranger; I’m not so young/attractive After a rocket ride through science, I am hanging up the gloves, feeling a little ashamed and embarrassed to have devoted so much of my life to what I now see as a misguided cause that has done more harm than good in this world. The previous post details my views about the limits of science. In this post, I will focus more on my own reaction as a human participant in the enterprise. As is so often the case, my trajectory, in hindsight, looks straightforward and linear. Halley’s comet introduced me to the sky in 1985–1986 at age 15–

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