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Re:‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation by genericone on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:40PM (#20287882)
Science is science as long as it is used and examined by scientific minds.

Scientific results and studies are indistinguishable from propoganda when used to sway/lead/inform the public. I'm not saying science is propoganda, I'm saying it becomes indistinguishable for those who aren't participating in performing the research or understanding the research methodologies.

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Re:‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation by autoexec on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:52PM (#20288479)
It's also been used to deliberately mislead and misinform the public. The tobacco industry had no problems finding scientists willing to mislead the public about the impacts of their products on consumers heath.
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