🦎 An Invitation to a Secret Society

A playfully provocative call for 'every curious human to do science and post it on the internet,' with a so-true-it-hurts analysis of establishment science. 'Professions are bundles of weak-link interventions; they keep out quacks, but they also keep out revolutionaries. They enforce standards, which tends to make things… standard. They select for a pretty homogenous group of people, then make all those people even more similar to one another, steeping them in the same culture and putting them in competition for the same rewards.'