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It seems more and more apparent that large sections of modern science are quackery. Will we fix this somehow and look back on this era from the future, and wonder about the many millions spent on serious people in white coats who basically produced random noise with a dash of prejudice and a touch of click-bait?



To be fair, for most of history large sections of science were quackery. Didn't really stop us from getting here.


True, the wrong answer can sometimes make the correct one clear.


worse than noise, the problem with science is that it's the new religion and people would believe anything that a "scientist" says, when they dont even have time to do the research to prove it themselves, that way there is a huge amount of "science" that is based in studies done in extremely biased conditions or just completely made up that make the news and textbooks, this people will be very frowned upon in the future same as the inquisition or witch hunters.




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