Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m...
by BugsJustFindMe on Sunday January 30, 2022 @11:06PM
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> They have no control over the situation
They have complete control over how complicit they are in preserving the coverup of acts they allege to know are definitely true.
> and if they hadn't posted I would know even less
The reality is that right now you know exactly as much as before they posted because what they posted was unsubstantiated. They may as well have said that their name is Princess Peach and that they're pregnant with the mustached child of a certain Italian plumber for all the good it does you.
One of three things must be true:
1) They have real firsthand knowledge that the claims are true and they're actively deciding to protect the identity(ies) of a conspiracy of rampant fraudsters whose actions are so egregious that they tarnish the very essence of the scientific academy itself.
2) They don't have any real knowledge that the claims are true, and the story is rumormongering.
3) I swear I had a third one, but now that I've written those two I can't think of what it was. I'll leave this placeholder here in case it comes to me.
They have complete control over how complicit they are in preserving the coverup of acts they allege to know are definitely true.
> and if they hadn't posted I would know even less
The reality is that right now you know exactly as much as before they posted because what they posted was unsubstantiated. They may as well have said that their name is Princess Peach and that they're pregnant with the mustached child of a certain Italian plumber for all the good it does you.
One of three things must be true:
1) They have real firsthand knowledge that the claims are true and they're actively deciding to protect the identity(ies) of a conspiracy of rampant fraudsters whose actions are so egregious that they tarnish the very essence of the scientific academy itself.
2) They don't have any real knowledge that the claims are true, and the story is rumormongering.
3) I swear I had a third one, but now that I've written those two I can't think of what it was. I'll leave this placeholder here in case it comes to me.