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Science has been hijacked from the inside for a long time now. While it's better than trusting straight up corporate releases, there are thumbs on the scales th
by zeth___ 8y ago
Science has been hijacked from the inside for a long time now. While it's better than trusting straight up corporate releases, there are thumbs on the scales that push studies to get the results those giving the funding want.
Social science is particularly bad at this, to the point I doubt any research done since the 1950s isn't ideologically tainted, at that time due to the cold war and the need to discredit anything "communist".
- daodedickinson 8y agoThere's way too much unmet need to discredit socialism right now. There was a failed meager attempt circa 1950 that ended with McCarthy's character successfully assassinated and socialists in charge of the schools so they could slowly take power even as their ideas obviously destroy wherever they gain it quickly.