Backreaction, Apples and Democracy

Bee follows up the legendary Science and Democracy and Science and Democracy II: the Hierarchy Problem with

...Science and Democracy III in which we find that there are actually types Ia, and Ib and Ic which are really part of type II before natural selection is applied to the whole process for part III

It is interesting stuff, and should provoke a lot of comment.

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