Steve Dustcircle 🌹Oct 13

The Price of #Dogma: #Religion's Impact on #Freedom and Progress

Russell Bell
Independent Scholar
Date Written: September 27, 2025

Abstract
This article argues that #religiousinstitutions function as systems of #socialcontrol rather than #spiritualguides, deploying #psychological mechanisms of #fear and #dependency to maintain #authority while resisting #scientificprogress and #humanautonomy.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5536859

The Price of Dogma: Religion's Impact on Freedom and Progress

This article argues that religious institutions function as systems of social control rather than spiritual guides, deploying psychological mechanisms of fear a

Show threadIngvar SantrySep 23
Flat Earth theory was a reasonable observation for its time but is "wrong enough to be discarded in favor of the spherical Earth theory." Asimov highlights the distinction between explainable inaccuracy (historical flat-Earth) and simple delusion (modern flat-Earthism). Modern flat-Earthism is a regression. #FlatEarth #ScienceHistory #DelusionVsInaccuracy #ScientificProgress
LeidenForceSep 8

Matter for Thought - Timeless insights for Modern Physics

"But each succeeding year augments our experimental powers ; the invention of improved methods enables us to renew our methods with a greater chance of success."

👨‍🔬Quote by John Tyndall, Irish physicist
📚Source: Heat as a Mode of Motion (1874)

#ScientificProgress #BetterMethods #ExperimentalSetup #AdvancingScience #Physics

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 25, 2025
Ah, because nothing screams scientific progress like fleeing en masse due to border paranoia 🤡. Meanwhile, Nature.com advises to upgrade your browser from the Stone Age—because that's the real issue here, right? 🖥️✨
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5 #scientificprogress #borderparanoia #upgradeyourbrowser #techhumor #Naturecom #HackerNews #ngated
Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

N-gated Hacker NewsApr 20, 2025
Oh, the irony! 🌈 Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of color by poking at photoreceptors, but their groundbreaking article hides behind a #JavaScript and cookie wall. Because who needs scientific progress when you have browser settings to conquer? 🍪🔒
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052 #scientificprogress #irony #colorphotoreceptors #cookiewall #researchchallenges #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 22, 2025
🚀🔭 Breaking news! Hubble captures pretty lights on a gas giant! 🌌🪐 Because nothing screams scientific progress like playing intergalactic photographer with taxpayer money. 📸✨ Surely the universe is impressed. 🙄
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere/ #HubbleNews #GasGiant #Astronomy #Photography #ScientificProgress #IntergalacticExploration #HackerNews #ngated
Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest

NASA Science
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 10, 2025
The National Institute of Head-in-Sand strikes again! 🎩🪄 By "streamlining" peer reviews, they've discovered the magic formula for scientific progress: fewer experts. 🧙‍♂️🔮 Just disable your logic and enable your browser settings! 🚫🧠
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-will-eliminate-many-peer-review-panels-and-lay-some-scientists-overseeing-them #NationalInstituteOfHeadInSand #peerReview #ScientificProgress #fewerExperts #DisableLogic #EnableBrowserSettings #HackerNews #ngated
Marcel SIneM(S)USFeb 23, 2025
What Happens When Science Stops - Medscape - February 14, 2025 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/what-happens-when-science-stops-2025a10003yl #research #Forschung #science #Wissenschaft #TrumpAdministration #DonaldTrump #ResearchCuts #ScientificProgress
What Happens When Science Stops

Funding freezes, legal fights, chaos — no one in medical research knows what will come, except that as of January 22, 2025, science itself may never be the same.

Medscape
Show threadChristophe DessimozMar 7, 2024
Biocurators should be seen as democratization agents, critical to scientific progress and AI application. Their deep domain knowledge, data science skills, and collaborative approach are invaluable. #ScientificProgress #AIFuture /cc @biocurator
poconnorDec 15, 2023

Day One of the #PKUGlobe23 Conference on #ScientificProgress was fascinating. Many thanks to the speakers!

Sadly, missed day two, but looking forward to day three on the patient experience -> https://gener8.eventsair.com/pkuglobe23/
#Sepiapterin #SLC6A19Blockers #CRISPRGeneEditing #mRNATherapy #LivingWithPKU #PKU

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