US researchers have spent years studying how conspiracy theories spread. Now they are accused of helping to suppress conservative opinions.

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    1 year ago

    Social science is science if it follows the scientific method, which this did.

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        1 year ago

        I’m sorry, did you just compare the social sciences to children’s toys?

        Science isn’t just test tubes and telescopes and super colliders. I’m sorry you’re so incurious about the world that you apparently only care about the inanimate parts of it.

      • groucho@lemmy.sdf.org
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        I know what’s wrong. They should be holding a beaker of bubbly green shit. That’s how you know science is happening.

        Scientific knowledge is what happens when you apply the scientific method. It’s not just stem.