• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    No a good scientist tests hypotheses so they know if they’re right or wrong. “Mainstream consensus science” is science that has been tested over and over and found, by scientific consensus, to be as correct as we currently understand. It, by definition, has tons of evidence.

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      5 days ago

      So you’ve never heard of a replication crisis. Cool

      And I guess you don’t realize that a lot of “science” is statistical association only, with no clear causal factors whatsoever. So you can’t test many hypothesis… Without setting up extensive RCTs… Which… Cost a lot of money and are filled with pitfalls.

      And then when new science does come out that shows the consensus has been wrong for decades most people miss the news and they continue to think the wrong thing for a few more decades until they die. And you skipped out on cheese and eggs and (unprocessed) red meat and whole fat dairy for fucking nothing.

      But that whole time you were chugging down them sodas and you’re eating all kinds of food that were fat free but full of added sugars. It turns out big sugar paid off Harvard to ignore the evidence against sugar, and to just blame it all on fat.