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Where is the "trust science" crowd when stuff like this goes down. It's strangely quiet in here. Shouldn't they be here telling us how this is a mistake because
by Flankk 4y ago
Where is the "trust science" crowd when stuff like this goes down. It's strangely quiet in here. Shouldn't they be here telling us how this is a mistake because the editorial and peer review process prevents this? Something about how science brought us all of technology? Oh, that was actually capitalism? Oh great science, where great minds get paid by industry to submit their doctored conclusions to a journal, attached with a small bribe.
- cm42 4y agoWe'll have to wait until someone breaks it down into a rhyming Harry Potter reference or something.
- Jaygles 4y agoI've never understood "trust science" as "blindly trust scientists". I've always understood it as "trust the scientific process", which is sensible in my opinion, as the process is designed to determine truths. When people falsify results, what they are doing isn't really a product of the scientific process, they are just committing fraud.
- Flankk 4y agoSo they're still here, and they're brain dead.
- scarmig 4y agoParticularly for heavily politicized topics, "trust the science" usually means something like "trust that the people that the media has designated as scientific authorities always follow the scientific process, understand statistics, and are objective searchers for truth; moreover, don't try to substitute your expertise for theirs." The scientific community can't simply no-true-scotsman every claim pushed with the banner of Science that turns out to be false or fraud if it wants the true claims to be considered seriously.
- betenoire 4y agoSeriously? Science is a process, not a result, and science is literally revealing the fraud here.
- vaidhy 4y agoWhy not read the original article that actually answers this question? The way we found out about faked data is also through science. So, is this a feel-good comment to "stick it to the science" when you are on a tech forum? Or did you find this mistake first and feel vindicated that your position is correct? Just crowing about capitalism means nothing. After all, the incentive to cheat also came from the same capitalism.