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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 you
by 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 agoDenying 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...