“The biggest problem with sourcing quotes on the internet is that people just make shit up.”
— Abraham Lincoln, 1872
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If you asked an AI to make a portrait of the “head Beatle,” would you’d get a some sort of dreadful hybrid?
With too many fingers of course.
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But what it’s serving up may not always be the latest and greatest. Generally, when a paper is retracted for being invalid, publishers issue an updated version of its PDF with clear indications that the research it contains should no longer be considered valid. Unfortunately, it appears that once Sci-Hub has a copy of a paper, it doesn’t necessarily have the ability to ensure it’s kept up to date. Based on a scan of its content done by researchers from India, about 85 percent of the invalid papers they checked had no indication that the paper had been retracted.
I appreciate the effort to circumvent paywalls to increase access to scientific papers, but if the retracted papers are not noted as such, I’m not sure how helpful this actually is.
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“What we’re finding is that even if you have something special about you, something that’s lasting — you’re particularly vigorous or have great genes — that is a necessary but not sufficient trait to have to be exceptionally successful,” she says. “You also have to be lucky.”
I think it was Ringworld by Larry Niven where humans have had to win a lottery to have kids, and inadvertently by this means bred for luck. The outcome was that humans are incredibly lucky. (Think Domino from the X-men.) Could this actually happen? It’s a mouse experiment and very short term, so this doesn’t answer the question, but it is interesting to ask.
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Fact checking is sooo 2024
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That might have been Protector, but his novels cross over so much I’m not sure.
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Ringworld.
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The simple answer is: Never time travel without Mr. Spock.
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Spock is the best wing man.
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Being your own grandparent is nothing a well-adjusted family couldn’t cope with.
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I can be a disappointment for even more generations!
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Philip J. Fry bolts in panic.
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Being his own grandpa enabled him, and only him, to defeat the brains.
Not to mention that otherwise he wouldn’t exist anyway.
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Since the topic is called possibly untrue science
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I was given to understand that the recognition sign is
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