We scientists are discouraged from talking and writing about ideas, and what would be called theory in other areas is dismissed as unbased speculation by the facto-mania that grips our subject.

我们科学家是不让去空谈或空写一些想法的，那些在其他领域会被叫做理论的东西，只是没根据的猜想，不会被掌握我们工作的那些证据狂热症们所接受的。

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In the late 1990s, to demonstrate how the tech-stock mania had infected the entire nation, he began writing about his plumber's stock-market fascination.

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