• @[email protected]
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    982 months ago

    I do love that flat earth documentary where the guy eventually proved the Earth is a sphere.

    • @[email protected]
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      792 months ago

      It goes further than that.

      Sargent says something along the lines of, “We can’t tell people about this result. They’ll kill us.”

      The entire film sets up the premise that NASA is hiding research about a flat earth. They are guarding the ice wall so people don’t see it.

      Then they hide research showing the earth is round.

      These people don’t care about science. They care about power.

      It’s no accident that conspiracy theorists and conservatives have a considerable overlap.

    • @Aurenkin
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      112 months ago

      This post came back for you…to remind you of something you once knew…

  • @fsxylo
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    282 months ago

    This could backfire so horribly when they take that as permission to let all their crazy out.

  • @[email protected]
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    222 months ago

    I’ve never seen a published paper on how to make meth. I gotta get that info from Bill, and his parents were siblings.

    • qaz
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      32 months ago

      My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.

      Well he certainly knows how to write a hook

  • Ricky Rigatoni
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    82 months ago

    TRUTH SOCIAL ITS GOT TRUTH INNTHE NAME THATS HOW YOU KNOW ITS TRUE AND ITS BACKED BY THE MESSIAH TURNIP GODBBLESS STAY SAFE VOTE FOR PEDRO

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      It’s one of those unfortunate words that has multiple meanings depending on the venue/context, and where the casual meaning conflates and lessens the value of the technical meaning. Another: “experts.”

    • Zagorath
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      32 months ago

      Wait, an accent on the U? I thought the participle of perdre was just perdu. Typo? Or does that accent actually have done significance here?

      • @jxk
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        102 months ago

        The correct phrase is « à la recherche de la science perdue »

        • Zagorath
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          32 months ago

          Ah, merci ! I also didn’t realise that it would be conjugated to agree with “la”.

  • @[email protected]
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    -102 months ago

    Like most published research isn’t unreproducible horseshit mostly there because of name dropping or dollars.

    • Zagorath
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      182 months ago

      Fwiw the reproducibility crisis isn’t because of “horseshit” science. There are a few examples of that for sure. But the vast majority of it is just good science that happens to be wrong. The scientific method doesn’t mean the wrong conclusion can be drawn, especially when for budgetary reasons sample sizes are relatively limited, or when the effect size being studied is small, or there are too many confounding variables.

      That’s not a mark against the studies though. It’s just a mark in favour of attempting to reproduce studies and giving good funding to attempts to do so. And perhaps a mark against using one-off studies with small effect sizes to shape public policy or health advice.

      • @[email protected]
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        -42 months ago

        My critique was not aimed at the scientific method itself nor at constraints faced by researchers. I was aiming more towards the sneering attitude that published research is the only valid method of drawing a conclusion, especially at the person level.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 months ago

          One published paper is not a valid method of drawing a conclusion. Studying references, citations and related papers is.