🧵 science is a bitch

Anonymous at Mon, 25 Nov 2024 01:07:18 UTC No. 16492214

Science is so fucking hard. We have to constantly confront the true nature of reality in the harshest possible way. Our ideas are always wrong. 90% of the time, the data shows nothing. The 10% of the time that the experiment actually works, it just shows you that your hypothesis was dumb and wrong. Even when you discover something, you probably won't understand what the fuck is going on. And yet, after years of going through this, we still keep going. Eventually we learn to be biased towards the most orthodox possible interpretation of the data. And yet we still keep going for some reason.
Anyone got good stories of epic scientific disappointment to share?