Rebecca Watson on Nostr: Sabine Hossenfelder tried to use the story of penicillin to prove her thesis that ...
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"content": "Sabine Hossenfelder tried to use the story of penicillin to prove her thesis that capitalism leads to scientific progress. Here, I quote Ernst Chain, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on penicillin, to prove her wrong. https://skepchick.org/2023/09/sabine-is-wrong-again-capitalism-wouldve-killed-penicillin/",
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