If science was never questioned..

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The reason we can trust science and not the sickos who write comments like this is because science is - by definition - a self-questioning mechanism, thanks to which dangerous substances and corporations have been regulated. Question the right-wing 1% and corporations who push anti-science propaganda.

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  • a self-questioning mechanism

And yet when questioned people say it shouldn't be....

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when questioned people say it shouldn't be....

When questioning the 'scientific mechanism' or process, it is of course important to question likely potential biases in the process, but not good to throw the baby out with the bath water.

The origin of OP's comment is a corporate & political campaign to discredit science, facts and academia so that the resulting mistrust can help sway public opinion to the corporate & right-wing will, to vote for their candidates, to trust the expensive propaganda, rather than science, thereby accepting their lies even when it's possible to appreciate that they are indeed lies. The only way to buy votes among politicians and individuals (via propaganda, bribes &c) is to make people believe that they cannot trust science, facts, or democracy; to help them vote for a Führer and Schutzstaffel.