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Re:‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science by umvi on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:16PM (#37757695)
Maybe more generally it's just "Politics Corrupt Science"?

I doubt "preapproved narratives" are plaguing fields such as niche north american spider research (but maybe so if biased gatekeepers have reputations at stake).

But things like covid, climate change, lgbtq issues, and soon probably ai/ai safety are politically controversial and thus are much more susceptible to corruption.

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Re:‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science by molave on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:41PM (#37757956)
But not all "preapproved narratives" are bad, though. Things like "murder is bad" is something almost everyone would agree on.
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Re:‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science by falalalala on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @06:53PM (#37758686)
To a deontologist, murder is bad. To a consequentialist, it depends.
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Re:‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science by Vecr on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @09:54PM (#37759949)
I'm not sure they'd actually call it murder in that case. They might accept some probability of murdering someone to preserve a strong negotiating position and mitigate inaction related failures, but most of the time the actual intent would probably be a non-murder killing.
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