• SparrowHawk@feddit.it
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    6 hours ago

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

    • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Neither of those things were backed by science. Confusing convincing lobbying with science is a problem today was it was then.

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      6 hours ago

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

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        4 hours 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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        5 hours ago

        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.