Low-dose radiation offers relief to people with knee osteoarthritis

Re:Low-dose radiation offers relief to people with knee oste... by hopelite on Friday October 03, 2025 @11:15AM (#45463917)

Considering how wrong and not actually scientific a lot of “science” is and has been shown, it seems that appeal to science should also be a logical fallacy, especially for the cult of Scienceology or whatever you want to call that complex that seems centered on Reddit.

Just recently more “science” was shown irreproducible in a meta study, a clear and fundamental violation of the most basic scientific principle. So even science isn’t science. Not even to mention all the PhD theses that have been shown to be plagiarisms.

So maybe try not to fixate so much on nothing being real unless “science” tells you it is real. It gives off an air of “trust the science” fundamental contradiction!

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Re:Low-dose radiation offers relief to people with knee oste... by tasty_freeze on Friday October 03, 2025 @11:24AM (#45464036)

Science is a process, and from what you described above it is working.

Everyone in science knows that all knowledge is provisional, and that goes 100-fold for things which haven't been replicated. Science is an algorithm for ratcheting understanding despite the fact that humans are fallible and some humans are outright frauds.

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Re:Low-dose radiation offers relief to people with knee oste... by mionhe on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:03PM (#45465121)

When we say "everyone in science", I think the part that people find scary is that it's hard to tell who is in science versus who is in 'science'.

Or in other words, it's hard to tell from the outside who really believes what you're stating and who believes it until it's inconvenient, or until it clashes with their personal ideology.

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Re:Low-dose radiation offers relief to people with knee oste... by pengaru on Friday October 03, 2025 @11:27AM (#45464069)

When what you're referring to is "science" in quotes, you seem to already have admitted what these people are appealing to is "science" in name only.

People acting in bad faith will appeal to whatever authority they think will achieve their goals. It says nothing of the legitimacy of Science, and if you let the actions of bad actors take actual Science off the table, you've only empowered bad actors to make things far worse for yourself.

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