[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Wyoming Iliad [@wyomingiliad](/creator/twitter/wyomingiliad) on x XXX followers Created: 2025-07-18 17:02:24 UTC lol @nntaleb @IAmTimNguyen Brian Keating thinks that Newton's Principia is obsolete. Isaac Newton: To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. What quickly becomes obsolete are silly BICEP2 fiascos/hype/pr which lack honor and do not advance science: "As far as I can tell, the BICEP2 scientists haven’t suffered much professionally from the fiasco. When David Spergel talked here at Columbia about the subject, he noted that this hadn’t stopped the PI, John Kovac, from getting tenure at Harvard. In the book, Keating mentions some “embarrassment and guilt”, but no negative professional consequences, instead explaining how a few months later Jim Simons came to him to offer to fund a next generation observational program (the Simons Observatory, of which he is now Director) to be built in Chile. The Nobel Foundation in 2015 was contacting him to request him to nominate candidates for 2016. Keating does write that he thinks the BICEP2 story shows that scientists should be given some formal training in ethical norms, but at the same time he makes clear that violating such norms sometimes provides significant rewards, with few penalties." XX engagements  **Related Topics** [newton](/topic/newton) [$ildpa](/topic/$ildpa) [Post Link](https://x.com/wyomingiliad/status/1946254236947517451)
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Wyoming Iliad @wyomingiliad on x XXX followers
Created: 2025-07-18 17:02:24 UTC
lol @nntaleb @IAmTimNguyen Brian Keating thinks that Newton's Principia is obsolete.
Isaac Newton: To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
What quickly becomes obsolete are silly BICEP2 fiascos/hype/pr which lack honor and do not advance science:
"As far as I can tell, the BICEP2 scientists haven’t suffered much professionally from the fiasco. When David Spergel talked here at Columbia about the subject, he noted that this hadn’t stopped the PI, John Kovac, from getting tenure at Harvard. In the book, Keating mentions some “embarrassment and guilt”, but no negative professional consequences, instead explaining how a few months later Jim Simons came to him to offer to fund a next generation observational program (the Simons Observatory, of which he is now Director) to be built in Chile. The Nobel Foundation in 2015 was contacting him to request him to nominate candidates for 2016. Keating does write that he thinks the BICEP2 story shows that scientists should be given some formal training in ethical norms, but at the same time he makes clear that violating such norms sometimes provides significant rewards, with few penalties."
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