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Excellent list. Please could you expand on/clarify these 2, I'm not sure what you mean and why:
Science before the mid-20th century was too small to look like a target.
There's a difference between learning a skill and learning a skill while remaining human. You need to decide which you want.
In this case I interpreted it to mean that there are many people now who specifically target science as bad (i.e. complain about "scientism" etc.) because science is a large, successful enterprise. He is asserting that before the mid 20th century science was not prominent or successful enough to bother being a target of attack. I'm not sure he's correct here, but the basic notion is plausible.
Ah, I see. I was thinking "small target in a large search space" kind of target. Thanks.