• @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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    63 hours ago

    I once saw a cow on a roof. Can science explain that? I didn’t think so.

    • @Zorque
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      75 hours ago

      Then baby we got an algorithm going.

  • @[email protected]
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    186 hours ago

    But I said the phrase “scientists don’t know everything” so now you have to listen to my bullshit.

  • @[email protected]
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    589 hours ago

    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

      • NaibofTabr
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        97 hours ago

        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.

        • Mr Fish
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          47 hours ago

          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.

    • Mr Fish
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      147 hours ago

      As long as they’re shorts, only showing one vague, unverifiable, third or fourth hand anecdote each.

      • @Remember_the_tooth
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        67 hours ago

        That makes sense. I heard that my college roommate’s pen pal said something like that.

    • @Remember_the_tooth
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      68 hours ago

      Are they at least 3rd-hand, (or more) spurious sources with an inscrutable chain of custody, because if not, you can miss with that.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 hours ago

        Are they at least 3rd-hand, (or more) spurious sources with an inscrutable chain of custody

        Is there any other kind?

  • @[email protected]
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    219 hours ago

    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
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      209 hours ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      47 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 hours ago

      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.

    • 97xBang
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      35 hours ago

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

        • 97xBang
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          45 hours ago

          Yeah, I’m being silly.

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

          FTFM

        • @ThatGuy46475
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          25 hours ago

          Isn’t a counter example just data, even though it’s just one case it’s still science

          • @[email protected]
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            138 seconds ago

            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.

          • @[email protected]
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            25 hours ago

            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.

  • @[email protected]
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    128 hours ago

    Hey, but measles in Texas, and tuberculosis in Missouri, are making comebacks!
    Ivermectin! RFKjr! Bleach!

    Learn to ReSeArcH!!

    • @Remember_the_tooth
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      78 hours ago

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

  • @Remember_the_tooth
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    129 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

    • OpenStars
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      26 hours ago

      Counter-counterpoint: uh… damnit, I forgot the tooth (already!?).

      A statement which somehow makes so much more sense than the rest of 2025 so far.

      You might want to banana.

  • @JeeBaiChow
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    38 hours ago

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