I'm actually MUCH more concerned with the damage tech and social media in particular is doing to our democracy. That, combined with a rapid decline in citizens' trust in science and their ability to reason and filter out false info, is a much bigger issue than shitty OSes IMO.
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Replying to @jqgregory @CornyKorn21
Citizen's mistrust in science was 100% earned by the "scientific" community many, many times over and is still continuing to be earned to this day. It's not citizens that are to blame for that. It's the absurdly large number of very wrong things that have been labeled "science".
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Replying to @cmuratori @CornyKorn21
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.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @jqgregory @CornyKorn21
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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Is marketing to blame for people saying you shouldn't eat full-fat dairy? If anything, marketing for the dairy industry wouldn't have been doing that :) It's just medical "researchers" in high positions of authority being really, really bad at their job.
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I don't think any amount of pointing the finger at social media or marketing departments can change the fact that there are a lot of "scientific" community structures that produce laughably bad conclusions even by the evidence of the day.
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And if that's the case, isn't the game over before it's even begun? Sure, we should worry about whether quality science can be disseminated to citizens. But it's putting the cart before the horse if the "science" the authorities are pushing is actually opinion, not science!
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Replying to @cmuratori @CornyKorn21
Depends on the discipline. Nutrition "research" isn't good science IMO, but for example vaccine research, climate research, quantum physics, genetics, and cosmology have been incredibly good overall. To blame the "scientific community" is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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The thing most folks don't get is that science is a *process* for continually refining our understanding... it does not provide perfect answers immediately. When scientists alter their message, it's often because the *process* has refined their understanding.
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Replying to @jqgregory @CornyKorn21
That is definitely false. Yes, Newtonian mechanics can be refined into spacetime. But Newtonian wasn't "wrong" based on the evidence available, it was simply incomplete. Nutrition science is _actually wrong_. It's not about refinement, it's about pretending you did something.
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Newton's laws _still work today_. Nothing in nutrition or psychological "science" worked yesterday or today, or tomorrow, because it _is not science_. There was no controlled experiment that actually tested the conclusions that have been stated as science "fact".
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