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    Faulty pattern recognition isn’t something we should be holding on to.

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        So not at all based in science? Interesting as a historical curiosity but nothing more?

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          Interesting because of the psychological insights into not how all people are, but how people make up theories in general. Same way religion has scientific significance in an anthropological sense.

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            Perhaps “historical curiosity” was a little obtuse of me.

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        And how many people are still using Alchemy?

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          “I turned 5 pounds of lead into gold this morning using this one weird trick that chemists HATE! Subscribe to my premium substack to learn more!”

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          They told us the history of alchemy in chemistry class, it’s good to know the context.

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            Yes, but no one credible still uses it. Which was the point I was making.

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      The problem is that we still don’t have a proper pattern recognition. We could discard all the soft sciences such as Economics, Sociology or Psychology.

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        What hard sciences could replace economics and sociology? They’re not very rigorous, but they seem to be useful. Psychology also takes some load off psychiatrists