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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by chrisco255 on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:09PM (#23877099)
Yeah but maybe the fact that science and politics and media have become so interwoven and in some cases march to the same drum, it does feel like something is quantitatively different about science in 2020.
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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by jonahbenton on Saturday July 18, 2020 @10:13AM (#23881505)
Agree both that 2020 is completely effed and that important issues from political perspective right now are unusually science driven.

Having to go through the process Kuhn describes but where both the brains involved in paradigm transition are not trained in evidence, and, the accumulating evidence is...people dying from COVID...is just so grim.

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