Re:When was the last time 98% of scientists got something im...
by freemint on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:52PM
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Rassenkunde (study of human races) was very much in vogue pretty much 100 years ago. This pseudo science is very much also infused by politics and power (to justify suppressing fellow humans).
> Science 100+ years ago was like a large, pristine, clean lake, and it took a long time for the toxic waste that is power to pollute it.
I see no evidence to show that it is worse today then it was in the future. In fact due to things like preregistration of studies, double blind procedures the reliability has probably increased. It becomes harder and harder to cheat.
The problems in the medical trial of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculin were very much caused by political rivalry between France and Germany.
> Science 100+ years ago was like a large, pristine, clean lake, and it took a long time for the toxic waste that is power to pollute it.
I see no evidence to show that it is worse today then it was in the future. In fact due to things like preregistration of studies, double blind procedures the reliability has probably increased. It becomes harder and harder to cheat.