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Re:Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change by notatoad on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:17PM (#31136811)
that's how dissent in science has always been treated, going back to things like "the earth is round". i'm not saying it's the best system, but it's not new. historically, science gets it right in the end, but shifting the scientific consensus is a long and slow process that happens among scientists, not something that uninformed masses contribute to in any meaningful way. the barrier to getting widespread acceptance of your dissenting theory is much higher than for getting widespread acceptance of your theory that matches the status quo.

i don't think it's obvious that there's a benefit to making it easier to promote ideas that contradict the generally accepted science. if it's correct, smart people will eventually be convinced of that. promoting fringe theories on twitter amongst people who have no underlying knowledge of the subject matter won't do anything to advance the most correct ideas, only the loudest ideas or the ideas that most match our pre-existing biases.

Re:Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change by mach1ne on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:51PM (#31137177)
> if it's correct, smart people will eventually be convinced of that.

That's not how science has historically worked. Smart people won't be convinced, new people will. Status quo changes when the previous generation is laid to rest.

This is the result of the academia being just another human social system obeying the same laws of power as all the rest, thus inheriting all their flaws.

Re:Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change by pfdietz on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:17PM (#31138081)
Science has often worked like that. As an example consider Galileo's discovery of the phases of Venus. It immediately destroyed the Ptolemaic model of the solar system. Even supporters of that system overwhelmingly immediately abandoned it.
Re:Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change by ncmncm on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:31PM (#31140107)
Many substituted the hybrid model where everything but Earth and the moon went around the sun, and the sun and moon went around the Earth.

But that was reaching, and they must have known it.

Re:Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change by mannykannot on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:02PM (#31137942)
There are plenty of cases where things have moved much faster than that - e.g. the adoption of QM and relativity, dark energy becoming a respectable hypothesis, plate tectonics, dinosaur extinction via impact... In each of these cases, either new evidence or a new explanation for previously-puzzling evidence was key.
Re:Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change by monort on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:50PM (#31138405)
Re:Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change by mannykannot on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:38PM (#31139770)
Are you not conflating continental drift with plate tectonics? The former was, for several decades, not widely accepted on account of the lack of a plausible mechanism. The latter is not the theory that the continents drift, but it provided the missing mechanism for how they do. Acceptance of both was swift once the distinctive paleomagnetic patterning of the oceanic crust was discovered. This scientific revolution was data-driven.