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Not sure why you are being downvoted. This is a correct stance. It is also important to note that two different branches of science can lead us to opposing outc

Not sure why you are being downvoted. This is a correct stance. It is also important to note that two different branches of science can lead us to opposing outcomes. For instance much of the trash that is harmful and damaging to the environment was developed by material scientist seeking a cheap, human safe, and reliable storage solution for water (water bottles). This took a lot of very smart scientist incredible amounts of time. Of course environmental scientists rue the day these bottles ended up in the ocean. Science doesn’t lead us one place, it leads us all over the place.

zug_zug 6y ago
Science never tells you "what" to do. But it does tell you what is happening (e.g. Drinking water in area X will reduce your life expectancy by y% or change your odds of cancer Z by v%). "Politicizing science" happens a lot, is terrible, and is stoppable, and must be a goal. Denying global warming is "politicizing science," saying "vaccines cause autism [when studies show they don't]" is politicizing science. Saying "Covid is no worse than a flu" is politicizing science. This specific case is about EPA not being able to release numbers for a chemical that is KNOWN to be toxic (and epa is years/decades behind the science already) [1] Your stance is weirdly reductive/defeatist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid
- sthnblllII 6y ago
  Denying the high heritability of IQ and its effect on racial income gaps is another example of non-experts denying science for political reasons. http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/PifferIntelligence2015.pdf http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/PifferIntelli...
iujjkfjdkkdkf 6y ago
Comments like yours and its parent get downvoted because "science" has become a religion in the eyes of many, and they find it heretical to question its teaching. As a scientist I find this ironic but also horrifying to see the same behavior that we've seen many centuries ago in other religions now intruding into science.

zug_zug 6y ago

Science never tells you "what" to do. But it does tell you what is happening (e.g. Drinking water in area X will reduce your life expectancy by y% or change your odds of cancer Z by v%). "Politicizing science" happens a lot, is terrible, and is stoppable, and must be a goal. Denying global warming is "politicizing science," saying "vaccines cause autism [when studies show they don't]" is politicizing science. Saying "Covid is no worse than a flu" is politicizing science. This specific case is about EPA not being able to release numbers for a chemical that is KNOWN to be toxic (and epa is years/decades behind the science already) [1] Your stance is weirdly reductive/defeatist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid

sthnblllII 6y ago
Denying the high heritability of IQ and its effect on racial income gaps is another example of non-experts denying science for political reasons. http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/PifferIntelligence2015.pdf http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/PifferIntelli...

iujjkfjdkkdkf 6y ago

Comments like yours and its parent get downvoted because "science" has become a religion in the eyes of many, and they find it heretical to question its teaching. As a scientist I find this ironic but also horrifying to see the same behavior that we've seen many centuries ago in other religions now intruding into science.