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Re:Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about r... by jansan on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:51AM (#26141861)
The same is true for science. Just recently there was an article that claimed that global warming is responsible for the corona pandemic. What a load of bullshit, and the "scientists" probably knew it very well.

Virologists are getting sponsored by the pharma industry, climate researchers are green warriors (while at the same time being funded by insurance companies), social scientists going completely off the rails turning universities into ideological war zones. These are interesting times, we have to be careful.

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Re:Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about r... by dinero_rojo on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:06PM (#26145968)
Have you got a link to that article?

And I wonder how much “good” scientists lend their support to not-so-great scientific claims out of fear that refuting them might damage the public’s trust in “science” as a whole.

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Re:Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about r... by jansan on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:42PM (#26146366)
Only found this article, but it is directly from the PIK, which is considered the highest authority on climate research in Germany:

https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/climate-chang...

If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything suddenly starts looking like a nail.

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