Ghosts In The Machine Are Killing Our Oceans: How Armchair Science is Sinking Ocean Reality
Russ George
APRIL 19, 2025
The Dangerous Drift Away from Real-World Experimentation in Ocean and Fisheries Science In the world of science, once defined by salt-streaked lab notebooks and wind-battered field journals, a dangerous shift has taken hold. It is the rise of the armchair academicthe modeler, the theoretician, the data-minerthose who sit safely behind computer screens conjuring synthetic oceans and imaginary fish from abstract equations and Python code.
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