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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some of the examples are not shown to work. They are however still good examples since going down a dead end can be a good example. Deciding where to explore is deeply political.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here is an excellent retelling of the cold fusion saga

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn92eWhGG14 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbfJFPVApu8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWlBZT7L1qM

    Basically, as soon as the scientist had one anomalous reading, the political and academic machine got into overdrive, huge money started getting thrown around and the scientists got under huge amount of pressure and paranoia.

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• fishos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think you’re confusing “politics injected into science” with science. Science is data and analyzing it. Pretending someone didn’t invent something is removing data points and I’m pretty sure science calls that fraud, just like we call the studies that found cigarettes healthy to be frauds, or the oil companies to be frauds. 2 wrongs don’t make a right.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “No True Scientist” would say cigarettes don’t cause cancer or co2 emission don’t cause global warming, or glyphosate isn’t bad for the environment. Yet, it did, for multiple decades.

    You have to consider “actually existing science” with it’s political and financially directed function, choosing what questions get asked and who will answer them. You can say “oh that wasn’t science it was fraud” which is all well and good now but it wasn’t for those decades when they served to obscure or bury the truth rather than discover it.

    Actually existing science is a really troubled institution

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    • fishos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, and I’m here criticizing “actually existing science”. That’s exactly my point. It’s not “real science” when it’s injected with politics and emotions like that. It’s biased in a way science shouldn’t be.

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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Most science isn’t real science in that view, the problem is that most science is funded by ulterior motives, very little science is the basic, primary science of exploration. That creates both huges gaps where the political and financial establishment fails to imagine value (climate science) and also fake science where something should be true for the power that be, but isn’t (glysophate, cigarettes safety).

        We should always imagine as a flawed, politically and financially motivated enterprise, a tool in the grip of institutions that need to survive first and science second. Pure science is a rare thing and it shouldn’t be assumed be the case whenever things are happening under the name of science.

        This is the framework to avoid being surprised by scientific failures and to compensate for them.

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      • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You are confusing science (the process of discovering understanding of reality) with truth (how the world “really” is).

        “Real science” like you describe can almost by definition not exist. Science is costly, both in time and in money. People don’t just spend lots of time and money just because. For that kind of investment you need some kind of motive, some reason. And as soon as you have that, you are into politics and emotions.

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      • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Biased, politicised science is real science. Not the platonic ideal you have in your head.

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  • into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    all due respect, you have no clue what you’re talking about. choosing what to honor in the current day has nothing to do with “revisionist history” or “removing data points”. not when they’re making statues and not when they’re naming galaxies. leave that shit to the museums.

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