Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated

Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by plokiju on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:27PM (#28855624)

> Society, as a whole, has worked fairly well without "bullshit filters." It's when you start putting them on that you start having issues

When has society ever not had bullshit filters? Intellectual debate goes both ways. The more your ideas go outside of the mainstream understanding of your peers, the more push back, ridiculing, and “cancelation” you will likely be subjected to by the scientific community

Very few geniuses are appreciated until after their death. scientific consensus takes time

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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by cronix on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:42PM (#28855775)

> When has society ever not had bullshit filters?

I absolutely accept "I don't have to listen to you" as a bs filter. "That guy's nuts, I don't believe a thing he's saying." I don't accept "we won't allow others to listen to you question things" as a filter.

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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by mcguire on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:56PM (#28855953)

What about "we don't think we will publish that"?

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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by cronix on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:14PM (#28857088)

Sounds good on face. Do Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and other platforms that dominate the planet in information/thought exchange, consider themselves publishers?

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