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ISL on Feb 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D

Scientists, even the best ones, do dumb things all the time.

Source: Am experimental physicist; do dumb things. Sometimes my colleagues do too, even the best ones.

justin66 on Feb 26, 2019 | [–]

Los Alamos was replete with brilliant people doing dangerously stupid things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

Florin_Andrei on Feb 26, 2019 | [–]

I know. It was not meant as an absolute statement.

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