EWD 1041: By Way of Introduction (Science is hated)
The article discusses the historical disdain for science and its practitioners, emphasizing that this hatred stems from the hard work required to master scientific disciplines. It reflects on past instances where scientists faced violence and persecution due to societal attitudes. The author argues that while science is often criticized, it has ultimately been accepted as a legitimate field despite ongoing public skepticism.
- ▪Science is hated because its mastery requires too much hard work.
- ▪Historically, scientists have faced violence and persecution, such as Archimedes and Hypatia.
- ▪Chemistry was slow to emerge as a science, facing skepticism from contemporaries.
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| Original publisher | Utexas |
| Canonical URL | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1041.html |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:41:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T16:52:50.488Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T16:52:50.488Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | r6rCf68tG_h2 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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By way of introduction Because most of this introduction is non-technical and yet I want you to believe me, I feel compelled to offer you my credentials. I have now been employed for 37 years, 30% at a Government-sponsored Research Institute, 30% at a computer manufacturer, and 40% at Universities, and most of this at both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. I want you to be convinced that I know what I am talking about. If we want to understand the world around us, we must be willing to face the facts, even facts we usually don’t talk about because we have been educated to be a little bit ashamed of them.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Utexas.
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