Science apologizes.

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8. Susceptibility to melanoma is balanced by enhanced D3 production

in northern areas with short summers, lots of cloud cover, and deep forestation. Even though we tend to develop melanoma with prolonged sun exposure, we develop it after our peak breeding years. In a Darwinian sense, it's a positive tradeoff.

Shockley was more infamous than famous. His problem wasn't so much stepping out of his field, his problem was that his profound bigotry and resultant confirmation bias ensured that stepping out of his field would produce results that were both infuriatingly wrong and laughable. A more sanguine scientist would have noticed what an effect a socially and politically oppressed and economically deprived minority population had on math, science, art, literature, music, cuisine, sports, and the list goes on. A more objective scientist, even one hilariously out of his field, would have reached far different conclusions than Shockley did. GIGO.