Epstein, working through web projects, also provides a sobering assessment of how much Google monitors what average Internet users are doing online.
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The growing crisis of confidence in science isn’t because people believe “science” is bad. It’s because they believe the current scientific elite is untrustworthy.
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Respondents overwhelmingly wanted an even more monolithic approach to social justice through what could be argued as an indoctrinating approach to education.
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English’s proposal is perhaps best seen as a call to assess what the taxpaying public is really buying for all that science funding. Are there smarter ways to spend the money?
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Plastic, used in countless medical products, could not be manufactured including artificial heart valves. Irony: Plastic cells are used in solar panels
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Regardless of who emerges as the victor in the battle between government censors and independent creators, the traditional media landscape is now history.
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What he most wants to advance is open discussion in science. Science, after all, advances more from doubt than from certainty.
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If all sadness, however caused, is depression and all anger, however motivated, is aggression, government can easily create contexts or pretexts for interference
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Respondents were self-selected and are probably more ideological or more personally impacted by the changes in approach.
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All that said, it’s not villains who keep Cancel Culture going. It’s people for whom being Nice is far more important than telling the truth.
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Legacy media are giving way to broader-based social media. But trust in science is also at a low ebb. And what’s the replacement for science?
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States like California that treat parents who refuse to consent to radical procedures as abusers can no longer claim a scientific basis for their policies.
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Effective stroke treatment was almost prevented decades ago because animal rights fanatics nearly destroyed the researcher’s career. PETA still brags about it.
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Trust in the science sector ebbed precisely because the establishment became intolerant of dissent and pushed ideology in the guise of pursuing knowledge.
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How can we trust a medical establishment bent on dismantling excellence as the primary goal of medical education and on ignoring data contrary to beliefs?
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People can now build in their own spare rooms an audience that used to require printing presses or big TV studios. No surprise, governments want control.
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He also promoted Vitamin A and oft-neglected strategies like a balanced diet for reducing measles mortality. Is he making science matter again?
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The genome mapper is widely cited as a famous Christian in science but West asks us to look a little deeper — into his actual policies.
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Few people who are not already fixated on global warming will care what doctors may think about it; most would rather their doctors stick to medicine.
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much of the advocacy is about imposing ideology on what should be scientific practices
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