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That last sentence is often used to criticize economics but haven’t heard it on harder “sciences” before.
by bitxbitxbitcoin 4y ago
That last sentence is often used to criticize economics but haven’t heard it on harder “sciences” before.
- richbell 4y agoIt's fairly common, if you're familiar with how big agro-chemical firms influence research into the harms of their products (lookup Oki's Weird Stories video about Syngenta and Tyrone Hayes), how Purdue influences academia and the medical industry, etc. Empirical evidence and data can be used to selectively deceive. Companies can run hundreds of trials and only select ones that showed favorable results.
- tekmate 4y agobecause it makes absolutely no sense here. what op is criticizing is on businesspeople lying to make more profit, not scientists
- dysoco 4y agoNot to diss on OP's comment, but out of context it sounds exactly like what COVID deniers usually say.
- frereubu 4y agoThat's exactly what I took from "(cough cough) disorders".
- jklinger410 4y agoCough cough was not a respiratory reference. I simply am not going to stir up the pot by directly mentioning the fields that are corrupt or the specific disorders.
- throwaway0x7E6 4y agoit's remarkable how little time it took for the big pharma to become our greatest ally
- jklinger410 4y agoThe beauty if disinformation is that it includes nuggets of truth, or uses seemingly solid rational that is flawed in a very subtle way. I am a pro conspiracy theory person. But to be clear, there was a ton of disinformation around COVID, and this thread has nothing to do with COVID. I believe COVID is real, and that the vaccines were a good idea.