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The public discourse around science is dominated by non-scientists, many of whom habitually make grievous and blatant errors. Telling scientists to "stay in the

• naasking 8y ago
  > Telling scientists to "stay in their lane" and avoid talking about their research in public isn't going to improve the quality of that discourse. There's a difference between results that have been validated by multiple studies and replicated, and results that have only one or two studies backing them. I think the replication crisis clearly shows why. Furthermore, there's also a difference between scientists making positive claims and scientists correcting improper interpretations of existing results. I think my post was pretty clear about what scientists should not be writing about on social media. Writing about anything else is perfectly fine.