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Science is more like a conversation. (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but homeopathy is still bullshit.

I know that's not necessarily the intention of this meme but it's way too common in woo circles.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

considering the political skew on lemmy i think this is more an admonition of capitalism than of science

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Even so, academics is such a niche and marginal problem compared to, like, anything else capitalism fucks up.

Scientists are still doing good things all the time under capitalism. Environmental sciences criticize problems that capitalists are loath to address all the time, but also apparently capitalism funded their research for a century.

This post is just more populist tanky agitprop to make dumb people angry and distrust institutions and science whenever it tells them something they don't like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The founder of homeopathy did the first blinded studies, in a time where allopathy was doing bloodletting and their theories about how things presumably affect the body were, well, bullshit, quite often doing more harm than good. Humour theory and everything, even as a systemic view it's crude AF compared to what Indians and Chinese came up with.

Now, as in currentyear, homeopathy is bullshit because we are way better at blinding and know that homeopathic drugs are no more effective than placebo.

Which just goes on to show that yes, science is a process.