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Fake news is working. If you saturate the information channels with enough misinformation it overwhelms people and they give up. One great thing about science

Fake news is working. If you saturate the information channels with enough misinformation it overwhelms people and they give up. One great thing about science is that it encourages reproducing results. Many clickbait articles review un-reproduced or preliminary results. Those feel free to disregard. Science isn't perfect but peer-reviewed, reproducible experiments are still the best data source we have.

buzzkillington 7y ago
>One great thing about science is that it encourages reproducing results. The replication crisis (or replicability crisis or reproducibility crisis) is, as of 2020, an ongoing methodological crisis in which it has been found that many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce. The replication crisis affects the social sciences and medicine most severely.[1][2] The crisis has long-standing roots; the phrase was coined in the early 2010s[3] as part of a growing awareness of the problem. The replication crisis represents an important body of research in the field of metascience.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
TeMPOraL 7y ago
> If you saturate the information channels with enough misinformation it overwhelms people and they give up. But that's the whole problem. As the replication crisis is currently demonstrating, some scientific fields are absolutely saturated with misinformation - or, should I say bullshit, under Frankfurt's definition[0]. There isn't any cabal with an agenda trying to confuse people (or at least I believe there isn't) - it's just regular scientists that are incentivized to care less about whether their papers are correct, and more about churning out a lot of them to acquire grants and propel their careers. -- [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Harry_Frankfurt's_concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Harry_Frankfurt's_con... - tl;dr: bullshit is orthogonal to truths and lies; bullshitters don't care whether what they say is true or not - what matters is whether it serves their interests.

buzzkillington 7y ago

>One great thing about science is that it encourages reproducing results. The replication crisis (or replicability crisis or reproducibility crisis) is, as of 2020, an ongoing methodological crisis in which it has been found that many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce. The replication crisis affects the social sciences and medicine most severely.[1][2] The crisis has long-standing roots; the phrase was coined in the early 2010s[3] as part of a growing awareness of the problem. The replication crisis represents an important body of research in the field of metascience.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

TeMPOraL 7y ago

> If you saturate the information channels with enough misinformation it overwhelms people and they give up. But that's the whole problem. As the replication crisis is currently demonstrating, some scientific fields are absolutely saturated with misinformation - or, should I say bullshit, under Frankfurt's definition[0]. There isn't any cabal with an agenda trying to confuse people (or at least I believe there isn't) - it's just regular scientists that are incentivized to care less about whether their papers are correct, and more about churning out a lot of them to acquire grants and propel their careers. -- [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Harry_Frankfurt's_concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Harry_Frankfurt's_con... - tl;dr: bullshit is orthogonal to truths and lies; bullshitters don't care whether what they say is true or not - what matters is whether it serves their interests.