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> Conspiracy theorists and unethical people with agendas use documents like this to support their beliefs, and it becomes impossible to refute them This should
by etangent 6y ago
> Conspiracy theorists and unethical people with agendas use documents like this to support their beliefs, and it becomes impossible to refute them
This should give you a very hard pause and rethink. If it becomes impossible to refute unethical people because they have sources to back them up how do you know that anyone who has ever used scientific evidence in any shape or form was doing it ethically? Maybe they were just very good at citing sources?
Secondly, most ethics (except perhaps honesty) is fundamentally consensus driven. Science is supposed to be orthogonal to consensus. Thus, if one wants to be an honest scientist, one must accept possibility that one's work might be used for unethical ends. And honesty, to remind you, is an ethical position.