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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they're both pretty wildly off base. Publishing papers that are vetted and used as a foundation for other work is science. Also, sorry, but developing advancements behind closed doors is still science. Oppenheimer's secret research for the government is pretty fucking foundational. Thomas Edison wasn't interested in sharing his ideas, but rather in selling them. Everyone remembers him.

This argument reads like two people having an ego trip past each other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You were correct in the first, but the things you're describing are product research and development.

All super important, but not exactly what I call science as a socially beneficial activity humans do specifically to learn the truths of the universe.