As Palmer says: "People who believe they are involved in a global conspiracy simply don't understand the process of science and the mindset of its practitioners".
Attempting to prolong your life isn't hippie shit, it's actually an anti-spiritual, pro-science move, a mindset that eschews the invisible rewards of a "life on the edge" for the visible benefits of not dying at the age of 37 with your liver in a bag next to your head.
SP: As the mindset of science is applied to other fields, the distinction is going to harder and harder to make.
New research on brain science uses words like "mindset," "grit," "plasticity," and "resilience" to drive home the idea that attitude matters, and that even the lowest-performing students can turn a page given the right encouragement.
In my book, Your Playlist Can Change Your Life, my co-authors and I discuss the science of this optimized mindset and how it is able to positively affect your ability to organize and recall material, without distraction, whether the material is academic or otherwise.
Rose coins the notion of "an engineering mindset", which makes science students easier prey for terrorist recruiters.
Furthermore, this chapter provides a comprehensive view on the mindset of cosmetic science as an interdisciplinary field and how researchers and engineers should integrate marketing in addition to their fundamental research.
Yet old fogey that I'm becoming, I do believe that people who write SF should have a nodding acquaintance with science principles and the scientific mindset.
Yet there is a quiet revolution unfolding in medical science, and the importance of mindset and belief is coming rapidly to the fore.
It's a challenge against the same archaic mindset behind pseudo-sciences like Phrenology--that certain superficial characteristics correlate or result from belonging to any specific gender, race, or sexuality. .
