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you also have to factor in how money can influence "science" cigarette and oil companies paid off researchers for decades to drown out negative research result
by ren_engineer 5y ago
you also have to factor in how money can influence "science"
cigarette and oil companies paid off researchers for decades to drown out negative research results. Facebook and other major tech companies have literally trillions of dollars incentivizing them to try and discredit all these research results
- Pokepokalypse 5y agoThat's not science being influenced. That's our legal and court systems being influenced by junk science funded by shitty corporate actors. Actual science is what they're trying to drown-out. And yes, big-money can influence academic review and publishing, and it's a real problem. (actually a HUGE problem). But that's not what you're describing. There are good scientists doing real and valid work in both establishing the cancer-tobacco link, and climate research with regard to carbon from fossil/petroleum fuel burning. That's not being drowned out in academia. It's being drowned out in the profit-driven political and newsmedia spheres.