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Facebook whistleblower Testimony
tp4tissue:
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--- Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 23 October 2021, 06:07:52 ---
--- Quote from: Leslieann on Sat, 23 October 2021, 04:53:39 ---heard it from a friend of a friend's unkle's mother who heard it from the village idiot.
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That's exactly the world of peer review though, it's always been like this.
Scientific publication just looks more <official> because the turn over process is laborious/expensive and slow. So, it's as if they done'gud at least for a little while.
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Scientific/peer review is not based on views but instead verifying facts not clicks and sensationalism, yes there is some, but you give FAR, FAR too much credit to the conspiracy side of things.
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That is how we define the ideal, but it is seldom the case, when we involve humans.
For example, Exponent Inc, which the tobacco industries paid to churn out research, Now meat industries are using them to churn out research in support of eating "More meat", and OIL companies use them to churn out research that says Burn more oil.
Going all the way back to 1800s, Liebig (german chemist) wrote a paper that meat is what sustains muscular energy.
They proved it at the end 1889 that it was not true, but the public AND scientific literaries ran with it anyway. TO THIS DAY, people think you need to eat meat to be strong. Which is not true, it just makes humans weaker and sicker.
fohat.digs:
--- Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 24 October 2021, 09:04:34 ---
That is how we define the ideal, but it is seldom the case, when we involve humans.
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https://time.com/5175704/andrew-wakefield-vaccine-autism/
Leslieann:
--- Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 24 October 2021, 09:04:34 ---That is how we define the ideal, but it is seldom the case, when we involve humans.
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Those are not science, it was people manipulating science.
You're missing the very fundamental problem, on one side, the science matters, where it leads is where it leads, it may be wrong, it may be flawed it may have been manipulated, but it ultimately it finds the correct answer. That's the always the end goal, right or wrong. The other side sees the wrong answer and blames the science, their theory is always correct, they just need to find the one test that proves it, even if there is 350 other tests that prove otherwise they will focus on the one that proves them right. There is no setting the record straight, setting the record straight only makes you an outcast.
Proving science wrong is tricky and can make you an outcast until the world catches up, but eventually it catches up.
fohat.digs:
--- Quote from: Leslieann on Mon, 25 October 2021, 03:20:16 ---
until the world catches up, but eventually it catches up.
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To repeat (again) my favorite quote from our 2nd president John Adams, who stated so eloquently and beautifully over 200 years ago :
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
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