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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by j7ake on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:51AM (#30145567)
I agree. One can be sceptical of the system while still working in the system and trusting that there will be a small number of winners that compensate for the sea of noise.

I feel the HN community might resonate with how startups are seen currently. Most of them fail, some are outright fraud, but a few completely change the game.

The model to assess the scientific enterprise should be similar to a VC. Most will fail but the few big successes will more than compensate for the losses.

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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by immibis on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:29AM (#30147225)
Noise is one thing. There are plenty of instances where humans have had to pick out signals from seas of noise.

The anti-pro-sciencers are claiming there is not just noise, but a sea of deliberately fabricated conspiracy theories concocted over many decades with an ultimate end goal of putting tracking chips in them.

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