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If your ideas are not falsifiable you're a terrible scientist. If your goal is to "find evidence for X" instead of "find out the truth" (wherever that leads yo

• throwaway894345 6y ago
  I'm not so sure it's so clear cut. What if you want to find the truth and advance our collective understanding without risking your career by putting too fine a point on your research and offending the powerful ideologues who have demonstrated time and again their ability to make life hard for dissenters? Having read a bit of the article, it seems like they've done a good job of using subtext to point out that the data doesn't fit the narrative without making their subversion too obvious. Perhaps we would argue that they should be forthright about their dissent, but that's also easy to say for us who have little to lose. Moreover, I don't necessarily think it's a good idea for scientists to weigh in too much on ideological affairs, even if it means they support my priors (which may or may not be what you're suggesting). Thinking like that is what got us into this mess in the first place.