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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by euroPoor on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:55PM (#22050486)
Do you want your children to live in a world with +4 degrees because some purely financially motivated people stopped progress on the environmental protection front?
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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by dang on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:59PM (#22050838)
Come on you guys, please keep predictable rhetoric off this site. It's tedious and we're here for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by reaperducer on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:00PM (#22050516)
I want my children to live in a world where they are free to think and to read and to listen to a wide variety of opinions, and not just parrot those that come from the loudest voices.
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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by dang on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:59PM (#22050840)
Come on you guys, please keep predictable rhetoric off this site. It's tedious and we're here for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by sandoooo on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:57PM (#22050496)
Is the chance of this higher or lower in a world where scientists with opposing views are allowed to deplatform one another instead of applying the scientific method?
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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by CalChris on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:11PM (#22050572)
The scientific method deplatforms. It is skeptical. It is observational. It is experimental. It refines and eliminates failed hypotheses. It is not fair to all viewpoints.

For example, the scientific method deplatformed geocentrism.

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