Which scientists?

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[–]skeech 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

i trust the MONSANTO SCIENTISTS.

[–]ActuallyNot 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I think that the peer reviewed journals do an inadequate, but the best job we have, of filtering out bad science.

Unfortunately, there's a stack of predatory journals that look like scholarly journals by will publish any bullshit, and there are people who's job it is to do PR for industries like tobbacco and fossil fuels, who are much better at public communication than scientists generally are.

If I'm wondering if a paper is sound and sensible, I look at the papers citing it.

Probably good sources are:
* academic bodies, because they trade on their reputation.
* private research bodies funded by grants rather than business (like the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) for the same reason.

https://theconversation.com/ is a decent pop science source. The articles are written by a collaboration between a scientists and a reporter. You get a readable article without any of the factual errors creeping in at the journalism phase.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

LOL

I guess with all that cognitive dissonance despite the obviously rigged, controlled, and malevolent system you have to make excuses to justify it any way you can in order to keep up the charade - otherwise much of your life might have been a waste and you might be supporting the bad guys. It's simply just better not think about it and try not to consider how you're going to continue wasting your time and energy supporting evil. Whatever helps you sleep at night and gets you through the day.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The scientific community is mostly interested in discovering reality. There lies the joy of science, and why most people go into it. It can be difficult for someone outside the field to know what's mainstream and what's bullshit in fields where there's a group with a financial interest in people not understanding the science: Fossil fuel interests, tobacco interests, alternative medicine practitioners.

But the system isn't rigged or malevolent. It can just be difficult to navigate.

So sources like The Conversation are especially good. There's a research scientists involved in the article.

Getting the facts right isn't evil. Quite the opposite. By understanding better and thinking better we can act better.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The scientific community is completely dominated by globalist powers, their money, their politics, and their voices.

CORRUPTION REIGNS!

Anyone who is a DENIER of this very obvious fact is beyond retarded - they are a denier of reality, a LIAR, obfuscating for deep personal inadequacies, and/or they are paid a SHILL.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

A+++

[–]screwballeclipsed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

what happens when an industry is big enough to bribe enough in the industry to say what that industry wants to tell the public?

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

/u/ActuallyNot will tell you that it's fine.

Even though it obviously looks like corruption, scientifically they say it's proven not to be. Trust the corrupt science.

/s