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Re:Analysis finds Australia’s inflation being driven by comp... by uonpopular_th on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:25AM (#34935232)
I used to agree until I saw what has happened to biology in the last few years.

Economics is a science as good as any other. It's just that a lot of people with a lot of money want it to say something so it does. No science is insulated from its practitioners being bought out and the few with principles being silenced.

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Re:Analysis finds Australia’s inflation being driven by comp... by sethaurus on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:25AM (#34935784)
> I used to agree until I saw what has happened to biology in the last few years.

I'm missing the context here — could you expand on what's happened to biology?

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Re:Analysis finds Australia’s inflation being driven by comp... by uonpopular_th on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:32AM (#34935822)
The bureaucrats who should have been enabling and coordinating scientists instead decided what the policy should be for Covid19 and ruined the lives/careers of anyone who did not fall in line.

The worst of these decisions by far was deciding that covid was spread by aerosols and not airborne: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7

This was nothing short of Lysenkoism in the 21st century.

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