A person asks how regular folks can know if scientists are honest, since science can be hard to understand. The thread shares an interview with a String Theory expert, who talks about 25 years of work. It shows that even when science is complex, experts try to be clear and honest about what they know and don’t know.
People ask me how you can tell whether scientific experts are leveling with them if the lay public doesn’t understand deep science.
Here an interviewer asks a leading String Theorist how things are going after 25 years since popularizing String theory in a well received book:
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