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Re:The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to sho... by fenwick67 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:58PM (#15502399)
> "All research should be taken with a grain of salt"

It's hard for any one person to read tens or hundreds of papers on a subject and critically examine them for fallacies, look for fake data, etc. It's just not plausible.

At this rate, if us commonfolk are just expected to take a default position of not believing a scientific study or consensus until we personally vet them, what are we to actually believe? Do I need to go out and personally vet that evolution is real by personally reproducing some fruit fly studies?

We're heading down a scary road if we cannot trust our scientific institutions to be unbiased.

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Re:The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to sho... by arcbyte on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:15PM (#15502538)
It's a scary road if everyone is just blanket assuming their sources of information are correct. We're living it.

There are NO institutions WHATSOEVER that we should trust.

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Re:The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to sho... by Retric on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:19PM (#15502575)
My suggestion is to ignore anything that's not a meta study.

Material science puts out thousands of papers a year, and ignoring them is easy because I lack context to understand them. IMO, the same is true of any field without a lot of study and literature review.

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