As we come into 2020, I am now pretty sure I picked the wrong career. If I had known what computers were going to become, I probably wouldn't have wanted to be a programmer. It is definitely no longer a career for people who take pride in their work.
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This is especially true because many of the things that affect people directly and substantially (such as nutrition) have been historically the most likely to be claimed as "scientific" and then turned out to be wildly wrong, and not based on any actual science.
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If we had been more stringent about what we labeled "science" and what we labeled "opinion", we probably wouldn't be in such a terrible spot today. There will always be real science deniers, but I wouldn't blame anyone in this day and age for being wary of "science".
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One might say they blinded us with science...
Still, I don't blame the scientific community for this state of affairs. I blame marketing firms, our faltering underfunded education system, and more recently soc media for amplifying BS and blurring the line between it and fact. -
But honestly, that really seems like picking the person to blame first, then putting the blame on them, without much evidence. There was no social media when "sugar calories are the same as other calories" or "dairy is bad for you" were inculcated.
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