What made you switch from reddit to Saidit?

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[–]Canbot 38 insightful - 4 fun38 insightful - 3 fun39 insightful - 4 fun -  (10 children)

The more people they push out the dumber the comments get. It has become garbage fire of meme comments.

What most people seem to be missing is how science subs, and I think the scientific community IRL, has followed that same regression trend. Most people assume that science is rigorous, and rooted in scientific theory so it is immune to ideological manipulation; but that couldn't be further from the truth. It is terrifying how stupid the scientific community has gotten.

[–]Trajan 28 insightful - 4 fun28 insightful - 3 fun29 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

Agreed. It’s the ‘I fucking love science’ mentality. These people like the idea of science, because popular science is cool, yet don’t understand what science is or how it works. Science is hard work and mostly disappointing. These people don’t actually like science. They like the idea of science and how appearing to like it makes them feel smart.

It’s similar to how coding became cool. It has been overrun by hangers on who think that casting is probably racist. They plague forums and projects, getting themselves clout through identity and getting low-tech roles, such as forum mods and writing wikis. They of course don’t understand what coding is, and they have no desire to learn to code, so they seek to change it to become something they can enjoy. It’s the standard SJW/hipster method of infiltration, destruction, then moving on to the next fashionable interest.

[–]Canbot 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You hit the nail on the head, they don't understand what science is. To them science is whatever a scientist said. The appeal to authority fallacy permeates everything. They will mimic a discussion, putting forward poor arguments, until you debunked them all and instead of considering the possibility that they have it wrong they just assume there is some brilliant irrefutable argument that must exist which proves them right just because a teacher, or CNN, or social activist told them so. That they can't think of one means nothing. You might as well be talking to a wall.

[–]joewest1313 11 insightful - 6 fun11 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

They also probably think Bill Nye is an actual scientist.

[–]Blue_neck 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They treat science as an absolute that should not be question. If a scientist says something then thats that, it cannot be questioned. Then they apply those rules to social sciences and put them on the same pedestal as actual scientist.

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

I hope you aren't insinuating that math isn't racist.

The very nature of this thread wreaks of violence and privilege from those who have.

If there were a "report this post" in the app you'd be in hot water mister.

[–]i_cansmellthat 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Science never arrives at truth. It looks at all options; stupid, opposing, left field, etc. True science can actually never arrive at fact because it can not settle, it must be open minded to new evidence. If new evidence comes into play, it has to be investigated. There was a bill introduced about a year ago that essentially said opposing opinions would not be federally funded in the US, therefore the consensus would not be challenged (don't know if it passed). That old meme "that word, it doesn't mean what you think it means" comes to mind. Science has been bought and will now say whatever the powers that be say it should say. Sad.

[–]flugegeheimen 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To be fair, reddit and "science subs" in particular have nothing to do with the scientific community. Basically if you let a bunch of mentally deficient teenagers (or absolutely infantile adults) to LARP about something you will get a typical subreddit related to that RL theme.

That's why actual scientists would probably be banned from r/science in seconds, r/legal_advice is devoid of actual lawyers, r/sceptics would make the dumbest conspiracy theorist to feel like he is the sane one and so on and so forth.

In a way, reddit is a twisted parody of our reality, it's how the most dumb and crazy 0.47% of global population see the world around them.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If this were not a wider problem you would not see the field of psychology going along with preteen hormone therapy. It is the most heinous crime against children ever created and it is sanctioned purely because the majority are sociopathic ideologues.