Lying Increases Trust In Science, Study Finds
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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.