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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 days ago (10 children)

don't worry, science as conclusions derived from research will soon be replaced by bullshit psuedo-research-AI-word-vomit derived from equally bullshit pre-determined conclusions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“Can you tell me how other countries have managed effective healthcare based on science?”

“I’m sorry, as a large language model I don’t have the capability to make healthcare system analysis. Would you like to talk about the beautiful Gulf of Amerika instead?”

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This has already been done by politicians and continues to this day

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And some scientists!

“If I repeat it in enough papers it’ll become true” seems to be the mantra of scientists with hard to defend theories they claim are fact.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Did you write this with deepseek?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

what if i watched THREE youtube videos?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

Then baby we got an algorithm going.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're clearly an expert then, don't hold back

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Should probably create another youtube video.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But I said the phrase "scientists don't know everything" so now you have to listen to my bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Ahhhhh... Love that line. My brother and his fiance just had a baby and are debating on vaccines or not. They asked me, I said, it's always better to get them and protect your child from as much as you possibly can. Like all of us here are vaccinated. I recommended that they follow what their doctor recommends. My dad chimes in with, "Doctors don't know everything, they're just trying to sell drugs for the pharmaceutical companies, that's all they care about." I looked at him and said, "As someone who studied biology in college, there's a lot that a lot of us don't know. But seeing as that doctor has had significantly more training than I've had, let alone you, I'm going to trust them more than some random article I've read online." He stopped talking to me for a large portion of the day after that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

If they did, their job would no longer exist! This is proof they don't know everything!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

It isn’t even better science, it is just more science.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Who has time for YouTube? I get my conspiracies and lies from millisecond-long TikToks.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (4 children)

ok, but what about three Youtube videos?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As long as they're shorts, only showing one vague, unverifiable, third or fourth hand anecdote each.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

That makes sense. I heard that my college roommate's pen pal said something like that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are they at least 3rd-hand, (or more) spurious sources with an inscrutable chain of custody, because if not, you can miss with that.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

How about 47 TikTok videos?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I once saw a cow on a roof. Can science explain that? I didn't think so.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

True, a sphere would roll off

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cow goes up, cow comes down, can't explain that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Damn, you're an older millennial.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ideally, yes.

What ends up happening if your research shows new conclusions on the basis of “better science” is that those in power will probably ridicule your new conclusions and findings since it doesn’t align with ‘accepted’ scientific consensus and doctrine. And by ridicule I don’t mean challenging the new theory on the basis of counter data/evidence and reasoning. I mean ad hominem attacks on the researchers themselves. “Well, they graduated from a top 30 university and not MIT, so anything they produce is not worth looking into”. You won’t be funded and the status quo will be allowed to continue without significant challenge.

I used to want to be a researcher when I was younger. My experiences have been wrought with closed-mindedness, arrogance, and lack of critical judgment and objectivity. Maybe my experiences aren’t representative, but hearing from others (at least in my field), I see that this is a systemic and widespread problem within the scientific community as a whole.

How long did it take to convince people the Earth was not at the center of our universe?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

"I did my own research"

Oh, you did? You had a lab, and test subjects and ran double blind studies? Is it peer reviewed?

"Oh, no I listened to Joe Rogan"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Indeed, and in addition if your religion is not supported by the facts it's time to revise its assumptions. Religion can deal with new evidence, it's just rather slow compared to say human lifetimes. I suspect thats because the basis of many faiths reasoning is built on philosophy, Christianity in particular. Which is a kind of precursor to experimental science where progress is slow or even circular.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Religion can deal with new evidence

Of course it can, all fiction can be easily retconned.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That why its such a shame that big corporations can and do regularly buy scientists opinions in exchange for funding setting up a ill give $xxx.xxx for your environmental impact study to not blame my coal mine. Thus by negating the peer review process. science can sadly no longer be taken at face value with out knowing who funded it and why. i miss trusting scientists who are clearly smarter than me because they fell in to the capitalist greed trap RIP real science we should have treated you better and i am sorry.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is why you never trust a single source. For anything. Reputable news organizations have never trusted single sources, they always use multiple sources to verify information they are told. Science is not immune from this, and never has been. And even for those that you've followed in the past, times change, especially in a capitalist society with a massive oligarchy that owns the news companies, like modern western civilizations. Trust, but verify.

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[–] Mavvik 6 points 3 days ago

How often does this actually happen? The cases where this does occur stand out because they are rare. I really hate the implication that scientists are not trustworthy because some individuals acted in bad faith. Scientific fraud is real but it doesn't mean you can't trust science.

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[–] OutlierBlue 19 points 3 days ago
  • an anecdote your cousin told you
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Counterpoint: nuh-uh (They et. al., good ol' days).

Citations

They et. al. (Good ol' days). Trump proves that YouTube videos about The Creator that validate your feelings are equivalent to science. Many People Are Saying, 1(2), 10–20. Things I done heard. https://doi.org/I forget

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, I was wondering what a tiny bit of partially digested dinner would taste like.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That's what I was going for! Sorry about dinner.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey, but measles in Texas, and tuberculosis in Missouri, are making comebacks!
Ivermectin! RFKjr! Bleach!

Learn to ReSeArcH!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Aren't those just from the gay space lasers and Jewish hurricanes? I feel like their resistance means we're on the right path.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

All I gotta say is technology has finally made us dumber

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

something that does count:
a dream about a snake eating it's own butt (cool story btw)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
  • Your favorite celebrity
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dude, have you looked out your window? Its so obvious the qorld is flat... /s

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