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Because some groups have a vested interest (no pun intended) in building and protecting the notion that professors, scientists, and researchers* are angels with
by caseysoftware 9y ago
Because some groups have a vested interest (no pun intended) in building and protecting the notion that professors, scientists, and researchers* are angels without financial conflicts, personal biases, or even emotions. If people realize that they're all humans with flaws just like the rest of us, people might stop and think instead of blindly accepting their conclusions as Truth.
* Except for the professors, scientists, and researchers funded by those other guys, they're malicious, biased liars trying to destroy the world.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoIt is definitely hard to reconcile the "science is science" notion I hear on a lot of political topics here on HN (particularly on the left) with the general acceptance in this thread that it's okay that much of that much of academia is funded by biased sources.
- lallysingh 9y agoScience is still the genuine best effort approach to finding out the truth. It's still done by humans, with all their failings, but it's the best we have. And it should be treated as the best we have, especially when compared to other sources.