That's all fine and dandy there, Kyle. But have you ever tried doing real science as taught by the "The Institute for Creation Science"? They have so called journal articles and are definitely doing real Science, it's right in the name. You just need to adjust your definitions of "Science" and "Scientific Journal" and "facts". I am definitely trusting people who took bus loads of drugs or were dropped on their heads as babies to provide us with sound scientific information.

I was maintenance at a marine bio lab, made friends with the techs who work for the senior research scientists. They're made to create results in a clients favor all the time. In my experience it's treated as gross but normal, like an old man hanging out naked in the locker room. You don't get more grants if you prevent the client from doing what they want. It really put a tinge on my perspective of "commercial science". Even the government funded stuff came with "stipulations" of the results they wanted pretty often.

I've also dealt with this! Clients loved asking me to lie to the EPA directly. Now that I'm doing medical R&D testing, every so often we'll have to remind an engineer that "no, we can't just do more testing and average the results."

and also peer reviewed research needs to be replicated to verify that it works too. they are probably going to look for an old study, or something, or even a blog to back up thier claims.

Manufacturing Results is the main mode of operation of Think Tanks.

Fuck yeah Juice Media

We have been practicing this thought process with religion since time immemorial, it’s programmed into the psyche of probably 70% of the population. Believe things without any proof, then fill in the blanks with stuffing and packing peanuts.

I'm drinking something currently that is 80 proof. Mr Jack Daniel's made it, and I found it.

What was your question again?

Easier to find if you're already making it up!

I've heard of fabricating evidence in cop shows but it's usually frowned upon

"I don't know the science behind it."

I think you're on to something. I'm not looking it up (per tradition) but I'm assuming the number of children born and raised in Antarctica with Autism HAS to be pretty close to 0.

I believe there is method behind it:
Thiel bought the government. Thiel likes Yarvin. Yarvin says "Fuck it all up!"

Vance cited in his 2022 Senate Campaign Yarvin's "strongman plan to 'retire all government employees,' which goes by the jaunty mnemonic 'RAGE.'" In a 2021 interview, "Vance said Trump should 'fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”

Yarvin (...) praised Trump for breaking from Republican practices of trying to "play ball and help the system work" and instead "trying to move all of the levers of this machine that he can move"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Both are true.

I feel like it's more a reflection of their base. Not all these politicians are stupid. Many have CVs showing very high functioning, sometimes even in academics. I think this is more about how stupid they think their base is.

Granted a lot of it is them acting outside of their expertise. Ben Carson was a good example. Definitely not a stupid guy but looney tunes crazy as a politician because he was acting outside his field.

Their are some nepo-trust-fund idiots though. Maybe it's more like a stew of idiotic behaviors from various etiologies.

It's got what investors crave.

Sounds a lot like economic theory tbh

This is how a lot of conspiracy theorists and dare I say, people on the right see science. They see it as a way to prove their own ideas, not how to find out what's true.

Phrenology wasn't made to find out something, but to justify the social pecking order. The Nazis banned science they didn't like (what they called Jewish science) and promoted crackpot ideas and hypothesises they did like (what they called German science).

The trump admin is cutting science for things they don't like (Trans issues, climate change) and promoting trying to prove what they already believe.

The implication definitely applies to RFK.

Workshopping some snappy-sounding brand names over here:

• OZperin
• TylenOZ
• OZcetominophOZ
• PlacebOZ

untested plant extracts which causes unknown reactions. it seems to be the craze for alternative medicine people.

Super natural. Pain relieving willow tree teas.

Observation: autism exists. Tylenol also exists

Hypothesis: autism is caused by Tylenol.

Experiment: yes- all the experiments.

?????

Profit.

Seems like theyre following the middle school scientific method to me.

Happens

He didn't say find. He said make. Make proof. As in make it up.

Half is way too generous here. Think of a hypothesis, then create a null hypothesis, collect data, analyze data, does that data fit your hypothesis or your null hypothesis? Then examine for any potential bias. He barely has a hypothesis right now.

That game was pretty fun