Comment on Rich ppl live longer

• 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  they will pay for it. every single person who mistakes causation and correlation will die!

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• bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The real reason though, those scientist trained hacks are signing on to what they are paid to, to design studies to work backwards from poisoning the population is actually totally safe.

  But yes.

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  • FundMECFS@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The other month in our field we got a paper where they surveyed people sick with a chronic illness and people who had recovered from that illness. They found the recovered people had better mental health than those who were ill.

    The authors in all their wisdom decided that means mental health causes the illness. It apparently didn’t cross their mind that being chronically ill is not fun so you have worse mental health and being recovered is comparatively great so you have better mental health.

    Now some right wing chuds are citing this silly study to try and paint the illness as fake.

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    • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The amount of shit science being published today is appalling. It’s always been a significant issue, but it has gotten worse with time. I have read articles published in the top journals who’s methodology should have made a 1st year graduate student cringe. I have no idea how they made it past peer review and were published.

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      • FundMECFS@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I really agree. The decline in methodology and proper hedging (not overstating) is really appalling. It feels like science publishing has become about marketing your paper not trying to uncover the “truth”…

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      • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I have no idea how they made it past peer review and were published.

        The authors aren’t the only ones getting paid off.

        I suspect, at some point, it will slip and become a major scandal that reviewers at major scientific journals have been accepting “gifts” from interested parties to help ensure that specific articles get approved and published.

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Guys! It’s the scientists who are bad!” said the smartest person in the room

    A point which he arrived at through correlation, without citing any causation.

    Curious.

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    • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gtfo of here, we should all know trade groups hire agencies to construct studies from it’s cool to reach that conclustion.

      You are either ignorant and given to trolling people you think (often incorrectly,) have made some offense, or a fucking moron.

      Now piss off.

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      • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        “Some science is done with funding contingent on a certain result, therefore all science is junk”

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      • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Your argument may be better received with less hostility. People are going to criticise your ideas throughout life, however this reaction could be seen as a distraction to your focus on the subject. Everyone is at dismay at a topic, and many topics have the capability to become heated, yet you will be upon greater levels of respectability for future interactions if you consider refraining from attacks today (even if you feel as though this is being done to you).
        Just trying to help, not scold. There’s always a better way to get your point across without making people dislike your comments, is what I’m essentially trying to get at.

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