• Pons_Aelius
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    246 months ago

    That is because politics is all about certainty and the appearance of knowing everything.

    When a politician changes their mind on something they are seen as weak. “If they change their mind of this, how can we trust anything they say?”

    Science is all about what the evidence tells us. If new data shows that our previous notions were incorrect, we must change our minds.

    • HeartyBeast
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      36 months ago

      That isn’t really what the commenter was saying. They were making a much more interesting point.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        Not really. They’re saying when politics invades science, it leads to pseudoscience. Regardless of where it lives, politics is never interested in truth.

  • rephlekt2718
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    46 months ago

    Anybody got the whole article? Blocked from reading the entire thing unless I start a 7 day free trial, lol

  • billwashere
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    36 months ago

    Politicized Science is an oxymoron.