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by timr 4mo ago
> The arrogance and ignorance so voluntarily put up on display is mind numbing. Well golly. Mind numbing! > Mainly to combat the false beliefs around science funding that people like you have spread. What "false beliefs" are
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> Yes, but you equated me saying "no normative standard" to "no standards at all." No, I concluded that from a process of deduction, but fair enough. You're arguing that nobody can be qualified to critique the
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> Yes, just like approximately everything we've learned about cosmology in the last 100 years are completely derivative conclusions from relativity lmao. OK, cool. Let's not do more of that, then. I just said that I could see t
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> Someone else mentioned that a project got cut because they used the term "engendered". Well, assuming that this is not an apocryphal story, and that there's no other relevant missing details (e.g. "research into sil
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> America is facing a multi-generational technical decline never before seen that will do irreparable harm across all fields of research This sounds very bad! But since I'm not arguing in favor of technical decline and irreparable h
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by timr 4mo ago
Literally the thing I quoted in the top comment on the thread. Go read that comment.
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> Sure here's one revolutionary new finding in that timeframe: that a person's social/cultural environment affects DNA methylation and gene expression for the rest of their lives. This isn't revolutionary. But it&#
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> Side tangent, I wonder how much China does these kinds of sociological studies, and the differences in infra/how they conduct the research. I mean...not to be too flippant, but they don't . They're busy with hard proble
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> That's a laughable argument based on a claim of authority. How exactly do you think that scientific grants are evaluated right now? I have some bad news for you... Anyway, I'm just telling you that I actually do have enough e
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> Ok so its just specifically the stuff at the intersection of race and poverty that bothers you? I'm not sure where this is going. No, it's bad science that bothers me, and this particular article prominently mentioned this
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by timr 4mo ago
> I suspect, based on your disposition towards it, you actually are not keeping up with the latest in SDOH research, Man, you guys keep finding fun new ways of saying "if you don't like what I like, you must be uninformed&quot
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by timr 4mo ago
> Now imagine that there might be more depth to social sciences as well? I didn't malign all social sciences . > Do you think we have it all figured out? No.
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> There isn't a normative standard for good research beyond doing good research. Ah yes, the post-modernist rebuttal. There is no objective reality, so let's not have any standards at all. This isn't new, and isn't re
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> (frankly astounding) findings produced by SDOH research I'm telling you, these same "astounding" findings were around 20 years ago. I learned about them when I was an undergraduate. They haven't changed. Things can
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> Yours is an "ends justify the means" argument, but are you comfortable with the way these cuts were done? Generally no. But I also think that certain classes of keyword filtering were probably a good idea. Filtering for any g
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by timr 4mo ago
> but thank God you're not in charge of funding research, because I pay taxes too and I think it's good. Oh stop with the silly straw men, already. I think research is good. I did research for decades of my life. I am against
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by timr 4mo ago
> To flip it on your space telescope, another one? They've been doing this for years, they're just going to tell us there's a lot of galaxies out there, boring. You’re not “flipping”, you’re just making a silly reduction.
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> Diabetes is getting worse, just saying that "we looked at poor people's problems 50 years ago so don't need to look at them again" isn't going to flag it up. Great! Do actual research into curing/treatin
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Yes, we should fund grants to make sure that the heliocentric model is still wrong.
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> You seem strongly in favor science that you understand, and opposed to research that you don't take an interest in or have read. Just say it the clear way, so that everyone can see what you're doing: if I don't like it,
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by timr 4mo ago
> So where are researchers who want to study topics you don't personally like supposed to get funding, in your view? I'm sorry, was I not clear enough? Bad research should not get funding. Or at least, it shouldn't get it
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> It's actually more contrusctive to outline what the post you both are replying to you don't like and more specifically why? Come on. I wrote a multi-paragraph post with an argument (I am the OP), and the parent wrote: "w
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> If the scientists haven't left science behind after an experience like this, probably nothing will....I think I should feel angry, but I just feel sad for all the humans involved here, I hope they manage to come out with a more po
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I tend to be pretty sympathetic to anyone who does the insanely hard work of operating an actual restaurant.
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Yeah, I’ve heard that. Also Bangladeshi. I think it’s a southeast asian mix, really.
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> Because someone who's not a resident in Japan, and claims to be living here, is fundamentally either also abusing the system, or not actually living here. What? No…I am not suddenly forbidden from using the English language becaus
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by timr 4mo ago
It’s not the point. If you’re following the rules, you can call it whatever you like. If you’re not following the rules, then it’s at least ironic that you’d be calling for defense of the rules. It’s a weirdly motivated form of pedantry t
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> Family reunification is a gaping loophole in any skilled immigration law and developed countries need to seriously limit it. I don’t know if I’d go that far. I tend to think it’s kind of cruel to separate families indefinitely in the n
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by timr 4mo ago
Yes, I knew as soon as I wrote that that someone would chime in with the English definition of 在留. I thought about deleting it since it isn’t important to the argument, but I left it in because it’s a thing I’ve heard expats say here. Look,
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Yes, keep reading…don’t just stop when the first part of the paragraph makes you mad.

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