- Farid ( @abfarid@startrek.website ) English72•3 months ago
Scientific method is the best tool we have to achieve “pure objectivity and truth”, but it’s not perfect. The primary point of failure being application of it by extremely subjective creatures.
- walter_wiggles ( @walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz ) English46•3 months ago
“
scienceacademia is also an industry” FTFYIt didn’t have to be.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English10•3 months ago
How do we rewild academia? Like I feel like this sounds like me being a JAQ off, but like, actually. I want academia to be rewilded. I don’t know how to do that. I want to talk to someone about how to do that
- Tlaloc_Temporal ( @Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ) English6•3 months ago
I don’t understand the fear of digitization here. I understand that many of the tools are pretty crap at the moment, but I very much disagree with villainizing digital systems in general.
- chicken ( @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English30•3 months ago
It’s good to be skeptical of institutions, just don’t go dismissing or accepting science based on ideological/class association, that’s how you get shit like Lysenkoism
- SpaceCowboy ( @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ) English19•3 months ago
Both wrong.
It’s just a process. Find evidence, make theories. Find more evidence, adjust theories or replace them.
People gotta stop injecting their religious beliefs about “the truth” or “socialism” or whatever into science. These are just your personal beliefs and science don’t give a shit about any of that.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) English7•3 months ago
See: Lysenkoism
Though being aware of the biases involved in the literature is always important
- SpaceCowboy ( @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ) English5•3 months ago
The Big Bang Theory has that silly name because it’s what people trying to discredit it termed it.
There’s bias in everything, but empirical evidence wins out in the end.
- Kilgore Trout ( @kilgore_trout@feddit.it ) English4•3 months ago
The second sentence of OP should have started with “Scientific research”
- cheesymoonshadow ( @cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ) English16•3 months ago
Reminds me of how some people got a bunch of fake research papers published to prove how flawed the system is. And they would have gotten still more published but the WSJ caught on and they were exposed.
- masterspace ( @masterspace@lemmy.ca ) English11•3 months ago
I mean, research funding is a huge problem, but half the problem is that journalists and reporters are largely people who went into English or Communications and stopped taking or learning any science past the high school level and thus don’t actually know how to read papers or report on them. Not to mention that critically reading a scientific paper and evaluating in the context of other research takes a significant amount of time, more time than is given to write a normal newspaper article.
And they’re reporting that science to people who on average know the same or less than them, so their mistakes and misreporting is never caught or corrected.
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) English9•3 months ago
Don’t forget all the politics involved in getting funds for your research. Fun times!
- GarfGirl [she/her] ( @RoseTintedGlasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English9•3 months ago
What’s the point in memes where it’s putting something that’s just uncontroversially true and not really that complex of an idea next to a twink wojack
Edit: just read the comments smh. My bad OP you’re entirely in the right for this, apparently the basic idea that the dominant ideology reproduces itself is too complicated for people to get, also someone calling you a tankie for this lol
Posted because it generates good conversation.
- rbesfe ( @rbesfe@lemmy.ca ) English8•3 months ago
OP has never heard of research grants
- stoy ( @stoy@lemmy.zip ) English7•3 months ago
Science is a method of systematically finding out the what, the how, the when and the why of the world.
Science itself has no answers, but has the questions that will lead to the answers that are the most accurate we can manage.
- fah_Q ( @fah_Q@lemmy.ca ) English3•3 months ago
Science it’s what plants crave!
- 10_0 ( @10_0@lemmy.ml ) English2•3 months ago
Sauce? For scientific research purposes
- pewgar_seemsimandroid ( @pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•3 months ago
keep the tankies under capitalism, lets figure something better out.
- hardy ( @Hardy@lemmy.ml ) English1•3 months ago
Chapeau
- LordSinguloth ( @LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca ) English0•3 months ago
That ain’t what yall were saying 2 years ago
- AVincentInSpace ( @AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ) English0•3 months ago
Be real here. If you were saying “science is a process” in 2022, you were following it up with “and that’s why we shouldn’t trust the results of any of these thousands of studeis until they’ve had several decades in which to be proven wrong, by which time I won’t have to wear a mask or get the shot anyway. I therefore reserve the right to do neither, immunocompromised people who happen to be standing near me be damned. Remember when we thought cigarettes were good for you?”
- LordSinguloth ( @LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca ) English0•3 months ago
Cute assumptions
You know what they say about assuming?
Makes an ass out of U and ME (assUme)