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And it wasn't like sponsoring scientists wasn't kind of a thing in the 1800's in some cases. The only difference really is that modern...

Kinda. The first Star wars movie I saw was the Empire Strikes back (and it was mostly parts on TV), but I didn't really watch any of...

There's a fun one from the 1920s. Otto Warburg, a future Nobel Laureate, needed some money for cancer research. The proposal, in full...

Absolutely. The Star wars prequels are the best example. I grew up with those and still love them. The OT I also like, and saw as a kid...

Since a lot of the forums demographics tend to be on the higher end of the age scale, means that for a lot of you you encountered the...

I used to believe (strongly) in ghosts up into about my 20's. I certainly experienced some strange things that could be accounted to...

Sorry, didn't mean to derail. I was just getting at that a PhD doesn't have to be in the sciences, and a non-PhD chemist has likely...

Gotcha. I agree. Freeman Dyson is another good example. My PhD is in one of the natural sciences. And, that's the extent of what I want...

I'm not sure I follow. Someone else brought up the idea that it was "my first hypothesis", with the undertone that I didn't know much...

I took the observer idea in this context to mean something different than it does in QM. Yes, I mentioned this. Right. In the context...

Then we are in trouble, scientifically speaking :) Yes, that is the point I'm trying to make. To state it directly: there are...

And what if they're a manifestation of "The Observer Phenomenon" and the mere act of looking for them alters the results?

Or, the downstream observations. Science can interrogate things that are irreproducible, like "did the Late Heavy Bombardment occur" by...