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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by marginalia_nu on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:59PM (#28855351)
What's wrong with being wrong? If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that we are wrong about things, each and every one of us. We may be right about some things, but even those are for the most part incomplete truths.
Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by plokiju on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:16PM (#28855509)
It’s ok to be wrong. But you should also expect that you may be ridiculed or ignored sometimes if your theories aren't conventional

Basically, I don’t think the BBC refusing to give time to flat earth era is cancel culture. Even if there’s a non-zero chance they were right all along

Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by SV_BubbleTime on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:45PM (#28855817)
Are the content teams at FAANG ridiculing and ignoring the people they consider to be wrong? Or are they going out of their way to censor perfectly legal and possibly correct things they just don’t like using an ever changing and intentionally ambiguous terms of service to do so?

> Basically, I don’t think the BBC refusing to give time to flat earth era is cancel culture

No one is making that argument. Talk about a Wuhan lab leak and see if it doesn’t get a lot harder to speak from your position.

Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by mcguire on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:00PM (#28856009)
Do you have specific knowledge of a Wuhan lab leak? Are your arguments regarding a lab leak reasonable? Will you cease making your argument if it is not supported?
Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by goatlover on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:14PM (#28856212)
>> Even if there’s a non-zero chance they were right all along

What does a non-zero chance that the Earth is flat look like? That we live in a simulation fooling us into thinking the empirical evidence is spherical? The evidence is overwhelming. There's not really any chance for it being correct, short of some odd metaphysics being the case.

Scientifically speaking, it's 100% wrong. Some beliefs are simply at odds with the vast empirical data, and can only be right if something else is producing false empirical results.