colossal own goals by germany and russia in the 20th century also probably had something to do with it
it's really no surprise a culture skeptical of consensus belief produces so many incredible scientists, a profession actually incapable of producing new information absent of skepticismhttps://twitter.com/curiouswavefn/status/1173978767187832834 …
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(at the very moment US academic institutions had the capital and appetite to grow their research prestige)
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People dislike when media turns science into religion, enforcing a belief system backed by a mysterious authority. People don't go "that girl in the lab is testing a hypothesis fuck her"
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i think it depends what she's testing (cc
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Many think science means listening to experts and taking them at face value. It’s why you hear nonsense arguments like “98% of scientists think...”, as if that is additional evidence. To your point, high skepticism all around produces both results and distrust in them.
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^^^^ I feel at home with these comments. Lol. Many seem to believe that scientific findings are the word of god and concrete But the scientific method is actually the position of trying to disprove findings to validate. It's never concrete, just "not yet disproven." Skepticism
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