What Dave Hone thinks about metascience

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Palaeontologist and reader in zoology at Queen Mary University of London, who studies the behaviour and ecology of dinosaurs and pterosaurs and co-hosts the Terrible Lizards podcast.

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1. 4 Sept 2025

   Our readingPalaeontology's besetting error is treating one superlative specimen as a silver bullet; what actually answers a question is the pool of data.

   Their wordsAnd that's the thing, it's the pool of data, and I think that's what people miss. We as paleontologists get caught up on single superlative specimens and then try and treat them as a silver bullet almost.

   ↗Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park | Lex Fridman Podcast #480youtube.com 15th of 24 in this recording