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If Books Could Kill: Freakonomics is a biased but stil enjoyable podcast episode that touches this topic as part of the whole book History is full of insta
by louwrentius 3y ago
If Books Could Kill: Freakonomics is a biased but stil enjoyable podcast episode that touches this topic as part of the whole book
History is full of instances where new scientific theories were resisted by those who found them inconvenient. By and large, history hasn’t been kind to the resisters.
Quite tone-deaf, makes me mistrust their results even more (although I’m in support of abortion) it almost reads as a threat
- paulryanrogers 3y agoIt seems less like a threat than an observation about how conservative science can be sometimes. From what I recall their problem with the book is that the studies were cherry picked and overlooked overlapping factors like lead, drug wars, and relied on sloppy statistics.