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And a third time when they ask for research funding in the future and the public says "No, last time you used the money fraudulently"
by LeifCarrotson 3y ago
And a third time when they ask for research funding in the future and the public says "No, last time you used the money fraudulently"
- azinman2 3y agoAnd a fourth time when the scientific community says “this is our hard earned conclusion” and the public says “I don’t trust this.”
- fooop 3y agonor should they, since the public is indeed being lied to.
- azinman2 3y agoAbout…? By whom..? Whatever it is, know that science as a whole is giant, diverse, and self correcting over the long term.
- verisimi 3y agoI don't agree. When you have lots of people whose livelihoods depend on the gravy train, who can't be sure that what they are working on is fraudulent because they are so specialised, who would take that risk? Its all about funding. And in the US basically all funding comes from the same source - government, military or corporations - what I think of as the governance system.
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- mwint 3y agoOver time, yes. But over, say, three weeks, science can do a lot of damage to an economy before it self-corrects.
- azinman2 3y agoIt’s very weird to me that science now equals vaccines and home-mandates, and it also equals advice given with little data. Science is way way bigger, and is an idea not a particular set of people or current beliefs. It also has brought untold value of taking us out of the dark ages but apparently that’s been normalized so much it’s no longer valued.