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There's not a global secret cabal of scientists who can meet in the absence of media attention. If a paper is presented in a conference to other scientists, jo
by bpodgursky 6y ago
There's not a global secret cabal of scientists who can meet in the absence of media attention. If a paper is presented in a conference to other scientists, journalists can (and will) write breathtaking headlines about it.
- avs733 6y agoIf only... Anyone who talks about scientific conspiracy theories really astonishes me because it is so obvious they do not know any actual scientists all that well.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoAnd no one here spoke of any scientific conspiracy theories. What was talked about was making statements too quickly to the media in excitement; the rebuttal to that was somehow that no scientific conspiracies run amok. I must say that I find that that in the vast majority of cases that a “conspiracy” is rebutted, no conspiracy was alleged at all. Someone, this morning, was also about a website that promoted the idea of the corona virus being a government conspiracy; all I could find on that website was the belief that mandatory curfews and closing ships went too far and curbed the citizen's freedoms too much. I found no alleged government conspiracy on it, and he could not point me to where to find this.