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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 zbyforgotpass on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:39AM (#30145505)
The strength of science used to be that it was anti-authoritative - experiments not institutions used to be the ultimate source of truth.
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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by immibis on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:42AM (#30147303)
Is it not still that way? There may be a bias towards believing trusted institutions, but that's because they have reputations for delivering truth based on experiments.
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