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Originally Posted by spd2918
When your science is politicized it is no longer valid. When your science is propped up by governments seeking new taxes it is no longer valid. When the media only reports science items favorable to the lie it is no longer exists.
And, as we see in this thread, when research papers are falsified to continue funding it is no longer valid.
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Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston
I have no skin in this one as I operate on my own observations/experiences. That said...
Couldnt your last sentence describe....for example, cancer research? Which ‘evolves’ on a daily basis. Slippery slope
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When those that don't like the outcome determine that science is politicized or propped up by governments or only selectively reported by the media they don't agree with, then you have a cult.
Science learns and grows. What was understood to be a treatment or a cure for a disease at one point may be later shown to have no real connection. Long term research into something like cancer will likely have reached many dead ends while pursuing what looked like promising results; that's just the way science works. Unfortunately, that doesn't meet the standards of the cult's skepticism and 20/20 hindsight.
it would be interesting to know how many of those papers flagged by AI or some other algorithm as having potential plagiarism or an objectionable email address or an international connection were 1. guilty of the accusation; and 2. inaccurate/wrong. While a plagiarized paper doesn't add to the body of science and never should have been published, its results may be just as accurate as the papers it copied.