• Wheaties [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    disproving things is much more fundamental to the scientific process than actually confirming things. Confirming things is a bizarre byproduct, a happy accident. We must foster a culture that celebrates a killed hypothesis more than a confirmed one.

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      Something was disproven here, the null hypothesis of “the standard model without the higgs mechanism is sufficient to explain all known physical phenomena”.