Lying Increases Trust In Science, Study Finds
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It’s not lying as much as appeal to authority. If the designated person declares x, the people will follow. It doesn’t matter if it’s a lie of not, sheep follow the shepherd or “authority”.
yep. how many times have you heard "X number of scientists agree, therefore it must be true" in scientific discourse? they literally shut down entire fields of research by appealing to someone else.
My retort is always that Galileo wouldn't have passed peer review.
Consensus is not the same as truth.
if only peer review focused on method and not results.
My favorite thing in the past decade was liberal professors getting hoisted on their own petard over the appeal to authority fallacy. I got kicked out of classes just to get an automatic A because I would Socratic method professors into rage quitting, the upside (cheat code) is when you and your family has money to sue, the program head will fold nearly immediately.
Look out! Antonio of Venice will lecture you over using a capital X! 😆 The guy is such a retard.
The history of science is littered with bad things done "by consensus". Not nearly as bad as other areas, but they stand out all the more.
Piltdown Man: an obvious fake but pushed by 'elite scientists' and their institutions.
Red Paint People: who lived along the North American Atlantic coast 7000BC to 3500BC. On land now flooded by the sea. All evidence was considered "nonsense" until suddenly it wasn't :/ And then of course elite scientists said "Oh we knew this all along" after decades of denials.
Song that is always relevant in succinctly explaining how these things work and how easy they are to abuse or wield like a weapon.
They put on a very good live show.
Absolutely. Always small crowds so its an outright party of hardcore fans, and concert thots.
They get a pretty big crowd when they tour through at MAGFest periodically.
That's the principle of organized religion. 'Trust the science' is a religion. 'Climate change' is a religion. 'Democracy' is a religion. Even atheism is a religion.
It absolutely is. It's a "religious philosophy" which is the exact same thing as a religious belief. Try telling hardcore atheists that though, their heads literally explode.
Yes. A religion doesn't need spirituality. It only needs dogmas. I absolutely abhor dogmas in every form on a fundamental level which is why I'm staunchly anti-religious. In my opinion religions with political ambitions are one of the most dangerous things in existence.
Just repeating a lie over and over makes people believe it.
Its called the "illusory truth effect".
So if the news says over and over that one things true, and even though some of us know its not, most normys are going to believe it because they are ignorant of how reality works lmao.