This one reddit post shows everything thats wrong with the people that "follow the science" in a nutshell
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🧠 These people are stupid!
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As for scientific studies - I did years in university studying statistics and economics and I know how you can play with numbers to present whatever you want. I have doctors in the family and my sister is a PhD in biochemistry. I saw many times how researches are done. The best example is - my sister invited me to her lab and she told me in a way of a joke that it's common to repeat the test until they get the results they want. So first you think of a theory, then you prove it. And if you can't prove it, you try until you do. I'm immune to "trust the science" for life
And yet people take studies so seriously, even the social science ones where they can literally prove anything they want.
it's too scary to accept that we are often left to the mercy of incompetent and even malicious people.
If the current times didnt show that to us, we would never have learnt it en masse
This scares me so much right now, specifically going into a hospital for their expertise that I really need. Such as a broken bone. Broke my wrist a few years back and I was grateful for Dr. Chen. He knew what he was doing.
Nowadays? I’d probably chose to let it heal and have it look cosmetically bad because it would have been crooked a bit. But what happens if I’m in a car accident and…I guess Jesus is my answer. His will be done, if that happens, I will not go to the hospital except of course if I’m unconscious. Best to stay home as much as possible, and pray
yes! my GP tried to stop me from doing tests that I eventually did without his letter (in my country it's almost impossible to do) which revealed early stage of cancer, I was enraged. We didn't do anything about it, we just immigrated and didn't know much about procedures. Now this asshole tells me "we as doctors decided that everyone should wear masks and vaccinate and it's your problem if you don't agree". I just hope we won't need to visit hospitals anytime soon. If it comes down to "vax or don't get therapy" I'd choose not to get the therapy.
This is exactly how SARS COV2 was made.
"What if SARS jumped from a human to a bat? Sure, it's never happened. But, wouldn't that be terrible? What if it was so bad that everybody died?
Tell you what, I'll take millions of your dollars and play around with this idea, until I can CRISPR up a version of this hypothetical virus. Then we can make up a multi-billion dollar injection to market, just in case 😉😉 such a terrible virus were to emerge and jump the species barrier, cough, cough."
There is ONE (and only one) way to prove that you are wrong.
If somebody were to (a) extract the blood of a sick person, (b) isolate the specific virus believed to be the cause, (c) purify that virus so that ONLY that virus were in a test tube, (d) and then test that virus to find out if it makes animals/people sick.
If that were done, then somebody would PROVE that you are wrong. They would also win a nobel prize and be a household name around the world, showered with millions of dollars in grant money.
Funny ... nobody has ever bothered to do it.
Because they CANNOT...
Science worked best when it was sigma males doing mad shit in their back yard, the peer review was if the claim could be demonstrated in front of a crowd of skeptical fruit chucking public or not. Not a faggot journal where the editor probably rapes kids.
Bbuttt…a-chrome is scientific!!
"Try until you do." This is so common, and it's a very human thing. Scientists are no different from the rest of us when they try to force the facts support what they want to believe, rather than letting the facts prove or disprove it. Education is a two-edged sword. A brilliantly educated person can brilliantly deny what he or she doesn't want to believe.
Some are outright liars, of course. Some are giving in to pressure or perks. Others simply want to make a name for themselves at any cost. It's a modern crisis of morality, but it is this underlying human tendency to force the confirmation of their beliefs that leaves them open to manipulation from gatekeepers with an agenda. Students used to be taught to recognize this tendency so they could avoid it and have a better chance at discovering the truth, but not anymore. Now they are taught not to question established theory, and they are encouraged to disregard inconvenient evidence that it might be wrong.
It has happened before in science. The situation only changes when contradictory facts from better observation accumulate to the point that the cost of clinging to established theory outweighs the cost of abandoning our modifying it. No one like to be labeled a fool for believing something that is obviously wrong.
While this is true, I (and most other people probably) learned that this is NOT science when I was in grade school.
Nor I, but for me that was when dinosaurs roamed the earth and we had to get up and go over to the TV to change the channel. I will concede that the proper form of scientific method might still be taught in some schools, but it should be difficult to keep to it when honest inquiry is limited by theories that are presented as fact. Everything is framed by the theories establishment scientific community regards as fact. That is justified when a theory is abundantly proven, like the theories regarding electromagnetism have been. It is not justified when a theory is not proven. The Big Bang is a relevant example. The theory gets in more trouble every year from better observation and better deductive science that increasingly challenges its basic tenets. They are trying to save the theory when they come up with ridiculous things like pre-existing magnetic fields that cannot exist by themselves apart from an electric field and dark matter that can never be seen, measured, or tested. It's the epicycles the ancient Greeks invented to account for the crazy motions of the planets all over again. They were invested in a theory, too, and they were trying to save it. My point is that this framing itself leads some scientists into the error of trying to prove what they have been taught is the truth.
Oh, the pharmaceutical industry doesn't have to tell us how many times they've run a test before they got the results they wanted. Why do you think R&D is so expensive for them. R&D is cheaper for this though, since instead of paying the trial members, they're getting paid by tax dollars for every trial member.