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A comment on Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online. Parent comment

Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by Infernal on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:03PM (#30143634)
>Stopping people like this takes a lot of work and often some personal risk.

I don't recall where I first heard it, but the principle that it takes 10x the amount of energy to refute bullshit as it does to generate it certainly seems to apply in this case.

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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by AllegedAlec on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:54AM (#30145949)
A post-doc of a collaborator of a professor of mine was once found to have doctored data. The professor and her collabs only found out when they looked at the images and found out that there were sections that seemed to have been copy/pasted. Getting the papers retracted was a gruelling process that (iirc) took over 3 years.
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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by acidburnNSA on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:25PM (#30143783)
Bullshit Asymmetry Principle.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bullshit%20a...

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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by WaitWaitWha on Sunday January 30, 2022 @11:46PM (#30144576)
It is easier to fool people then to convince them they have been fooled - Mark Twain
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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by kristopolous on Sunday January 30, 2022 @10:40PM (#30144194)
And often it doesn't actually matter. How many times have you seen people who use citations and references get harassed by some bloviating hoard?

Reality is almost irrelevant in the face of ideology, dogma, and all the other forces that keep counterintuitive or uncomfortable reality out.

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