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Chinese Lander Instrument Detects Negative Ions on Far Side of Moon (futurism.com)

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Chinese Lander Instrument Detects Negative Ions on Far Side of Moon

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You should always read scientific publications with a healthy dose of scepticism - not because science isn't to be trusted, but because trying to falsify it's results and finding potential issues is an important part of the process.

If you do that, I don't see why you should treat Chinese papers differently. Sure, a country with an authoritarian government with a cultural emphasis on face might produce some papers that aren't factual due to that specifically, but dismissing the scientific output of a nation of over a billion people over that seems backwards.