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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @05:35PM (#21208385)
Thank you for saying that. Conditioning on this being accurate information, I just lost that much trust in the community of scientists.

This is how "hacking" the public policymaking fucks up society. And then people are surprised antivaxxers are a thing. They are a thing because we're all being constantly manipulated, and some people just don't have the capacity or patience to separate the truth from bullshit.

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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by icebraining on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @06:51PM (#21209044)
How can one even lose trust in "the community of scientists"? It's such a vague concept.
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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:01PM (#21209126)
WRT. "the community of scientists", I was just parroting the expression the comment I replied to used. I primarily meant medical reporting and its public policy implications.
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