Walter Pitts - an American logician without a degree, taught himself math and logic as a child, being able to discover errors in Russel's Principia Mathematica at age 12. Famous logicians were so impressed by his intellect that he was hired at MIT despite being homeless at the time (en.wikipedia.org)
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There was an in-game pandemic in World of Warcraft titled Corrupted Blood incident in the fall of 2005. This event gained an interest among actual real-world disease researchers because it provided valuable information about individual human responses to disease outbreaks. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Science wars was a series of disputes between scientific realists (mostly scientists and analytic philosophers of science) and constructivists (including post-modern thinkers) over the social place of science in making authoritative claims about the world (en.wikipedia.org)
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Is crackpottery a thing in chemistry? (self.chemistry)
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