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>Now, it would be nice if there were a lesson in this list of errors that might help scientists do better in the future. But the whole history of science shows that such errors are actually unavoidable. There is a lesson, though, based on what the mistakes on this list have in common: They’re all on a list of errors now known to be errors. Science, unlike certain political philosophies and personality cults, corrects its mistakes. That’s the lesson, and that’s why respecting science is so important to avoiding errors in other realms of life.

Yes "respect science" experts say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimz-PZMjjs

>>Now, it would be nice if there were a lesson in this list of errors that might help scientists do better in the future. But the whole history of science shows that such errors are actually unavoidable. There is a lesson, though, based on what the mistakes on this list have in common: They’re all on a list of errors now known to be errors. Science, unlike certain political philosophies and personality cults, corrects its mistakes. That’s the lesson, and **that’s why respecting science** is so important to avoiding errors in other realms of life. Yes "respect science" experts say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimz-PZMjjs

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Scorpions don't just live in the desert, they live literally everywhere between the tropic of cancer and the antartic circle https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Scorpiones_distribution.png

And no, scorpions aren't going to evolve into industry and space rockets builders no matter what's the "input variable"

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Q: Where are scorpions most commonly found? A: deserts

The ones in wetter climates changed colour, because evolution

And no, scorpions aren't going to evolve into industry and space rockets builders no matter what's the "input variable"

except they will evolve if the variables ever change, but right now they have a niche and every other niche is contested by better adapted creatures. That's why there is more than one animal on earth, everything came from soup and every fork adapted to its environmental niche. Hence there are more scorpions than fish in the desert...

If everything else died, then scorpions would mutate into other creatures, maybe back into Eurypterids (sea scorpions)

Everything evolves, otherwise the only life on earth would be fish, but some fish started using their fins to move onto land and the "inputs" made this an advantage, because then there were zero predators on land.

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Tropical forests aren't exactly deserts, in fact it's the opposite of deserts, it's called the environment and yet this major variable isn't decisive

The chimpanzee will never become human, not even close https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Hominini_lineage.svg

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Tropical forests aren't exactly deserts

it doesn't matter, anywhere that has bugs will be survivable, except that they have a stronger competitive niche in deserts.

Bears ended up in the Arctic, not because they like icebergs so much, just that they found a niche that wasn't already being exploited by 10 foot tall carnivorous penguins, was survivable because they already had fur, which contained meat, so then they evolved white fur.

The chimpanzee will never become human

see all those forks in development? Those are apes finding new branches because of environmental changes or advantageous mutations. If you remove the top human predators from those niches, then monkeys will be the top contender to exploit it. Hence Planet of the Apes. You probably won't get a human, but you will get something very like one. Top predators are usually co-operative, like wolves, evolution in a benign environment favours brain power. If we had a nuclear war, then tardigrades and cockroaches would be the top predators for the next million years