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If an article is headlined "Firefighters rescue cat from tree" Is your assumption that all firefighters were involved in the rescue?
by ratg13 5y ago
If an article is headlined "Firefighters rescue cat from tree"
Is your assumption that all firefighters were involved in the rescue?
- RyEgswuCsn 5y agoIt’s not reasonable to assume all firefighters were involved in a cat rescue. But if one says “Firefighters think cats are cute”, it certainly appears that it implies most firefighters share this opinion.
- loceng 5y agoI do agree with you we should require specificity as a pillar to integrity but it seems like a long way to there.
- ErikVandeWater 5y agoAlso, the scientists with the most power were the ones doing the misleading. For whatever reason, the power structure has been such that the scientists willing to mislead are elevated to positions where they are given the opportunity to mislead the most people, and not challenged by other scientists^1 like you would expect in a community dependent on debate to find the truth. And it's not as if this is leading to a substantial change in the community. If we're being honest, scientists with positions of power are just as likely to mislead us in the future when they believe the truth might be harmful to their funding. 1 in a substantial way