• rmuk@feddit.uk
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    1 hour ago

    Who has time for YouTube? I get my conspiracies and lies from millisecond-long TikToks.

  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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    But I said the phrase “scientists don’t know everything” so now you have to listen to my bullshit.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    don’t worry, science as conclusions derived from research will soon be replaced by bullshit psuedo-research-AI-word-vomit derived from equally bullshit pre-determined conclusions

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        AI’s primary use case so far is to further concentrate wealth with the wealthy, and to replace employees. People who think AI is bad recognize that it is in the hands of the modern generation of robber barons, and serves their interests.

        Those who don’t recognize this are delusional.

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          AI as a tool can absolutely be a good thing, just like almost any tool. A tool on its own is neither good nor bad, it’s just a tool that can be used. The usage is what makes it good or bad.

          Yes, most of what AI is used for now is bad, but it can absolutely be a good thing in the right use cases.

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    That why its such a shame that big corporations can and do regularly buy scientists opinions in exchange for funding setting up a ill give $xxx.xxx for your environmental impact study to not blame my coal mine. Thus by negating the peer review process. science can sadly no longer be taken at face value with out knowing who funded it and why. i miss trusting scientists who are clearly smarter than me because they fell in to the capitalist greed trap RIP real science we should have treated you better and i am sorry.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      This is why you never trust a single source. For anything. Reputable news organizations have never trusted single sources, they always use multiple sources to verify information they are told. Science is not immune from this, and never has been. And even for those that you’ve followed in the past, times change, especially in a capitalist society with a massive oligarchy that owns the news companies, like modern western civilizations. Trust, but verify.

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      9 hours ago

      How often does this actually happen? The cases where this does occur stand out because they are rare. I really hate the implication that scientists are not trustworthy because some individuals acted in bad faith. Scientific fraud is real but it doesn’t mean you can’t trust science.

  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Counterpoint: nuh-uh (They et. al., good ol’ days).

    Citations

    They et. al. (Good ol’ days). Trump proves that YouTube videos about The Creator that validate your feelings are equivalent to science. Many People Are Saying, 1(2), 10–20. Things I done heard. https://doi.org/I forget

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      Aren’t those just from the gay space lasers and Jewish hurricanes? I feel like their resistance means we’re on the right path.

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      Counter examples only refute when they are publicised. When they are ignored because the status quo is preferred they achieve little

      See for example low carb nutrition

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      Counterexamples only go so far. What you really need is counterexamples, and an analysis of their implications, including a probability study.

      In other words, well, science.

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      7 hours ago

      Isn’t a counterexample just da tomb? Even though its only won case-a-dilla, it’s still le sahyênçe.

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          Yeah, I’m being silly.

          Isn’t a counterexample just one datum? Even though its only one case, it’s still science.

          FTFM

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            Science requires systematic observation, measurement and usually variation (often experimentally controlled); and, usually, iterations.

            One datapoint outside such a system is not science.

            You can’t even necessarily just insert a new datapoint into a pre-existing scientific sytem. The system itself may need to be adjusted, for example to test and account for biases that often occur due to how observations are made.

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            Not to my mind, science requires a testable hypothesis and evidence. I would argue that merely refuting someone else’s hypothesis without providing a new one doesn’t meet the bar of doing science.

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    While they don’t refute it, enough of those do prevent better science from happening though, especially when it’s needed.