• SparrowHawk@feddit.it
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      2 hours ago

      But it does. Cigarettes were healthy and climate change didn’t exist 50 years ago

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        I mean those things didn’t change, it was just about how research was manipulated by money and human biases.

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          27 minutes ago

          Yes but science is a process, not a thing, and that process is corruptible.

          There is a differentiation between the natural world for how it’s made and the human process that quantifies that knowledge.

          Science has always changed, just like human culture did

        • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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          The truth doesn’t change. Scientific consensus does. Scientific consensus has been wrong on countless things. After all, science is about getting things a little less wrong every time.