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[–] Antiproton@programming.dev 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Science doesn't change just because some groups try to use it to forward an agenda.

[–] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But it does. Cigarettes were healthy and climate change didn't exist 50 years ago

[–] Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean those things didn't change, it was just about how research was manipulated by money and human biases.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The truth doesn’t change. Scientific consensus does. Scientific consensus has been wrong on countless things. After all, science is about getting things a little less wrong every time.

[–] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 11 points 2 weeks ago

Yes but science is a process, not a thing, and that process is corruptible.

There is a differentiation between the natural world for how it's made and the human process that quantifies that knowledge.

Science has always changed, just like human culture did

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Climate Change has existed for over 110 years in science.

[–] Antiproton@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

There was never any science saying "cigarettes are healthy".

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What it is vs how it's (ab)used

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or "real science" versus "imaginary science"

Bonus round : "real science has never been tried"

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

One more to fill the bingo card

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No True Scotsman argument sort of.

Now, I'm not saying we ignore science or throw it out, but there are flaws.

[–] Chuymatt 4 points 2 weeks ago

Is it made by humans? Yah, there are flaws.

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