Mastodawn

This paper deserves a rant 🧵! Besides HARKing, there are plenty of other ongoing, institutionalized problems in #science. Cherry picking, retconning, historic negation &/or narrative reframing to make your results sound surprising (clickbait) all seem to apply here. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Pythagoras was wrong: there ar...

Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies, study finds

The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge centuries of

University of Cambridge

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mj

Given that musical instruments pre-date "the west" by 10s of 1000s of yrs, perfected into practice at least 1000 prior to Pythagoras, even his question re. #consonance at the time was misleading. As stated above, he was simply looking to confirm numerology #biases to uphold his cult-like beliefs.