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Obviously, supporting a New York real estate billionaire is anti-establishment for some reason (feddit.de)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (47 children)

Piracy isn't stealing, primarily since the victim still has the pirated goods and can continue to sell them, but doubly so since people who pay for those goods legitimately don't own them and are at the complete mercy of the company to continue to access them. History is rife with examples of companies removing access to digitally paid for goods with no explanation or recourse. Look at the recent PlayStation fiasco, or Warner Brothers cancelling Infinity Train and Inside Job (and pulling the completed seasons from streaming services) because they wanted a tax write-off.
Questioning the validity of science and half the global population's worth of empirical evidence and endangering oneself and others purely to be contrarian, and, more importantly, continuing to support someone who calls immigrants vermin and quotes Mussolini in his campaign speeches goes beyond "having a different opinion"

[+] [email protected] -38 points 9 months ago (43 children)

Questioning the validity of science is precisely how science is done. You form a hypothesis and design an experiment to either prove or disprove it. Reading papers and just believing everything they say, taking for granted that the people who wrote them carried out the experiment(s) exactly as described, didn't fudge any numbers, and declared all their conflicts of interest and sources of funding accurately and unbiased, isn't.
Making your own discussion platform because you don't like the other ones that are available is no worse of an offense than going to a different room. Lemmy literally IS such a place that was created because people didn't like what was happening on reddit. Basically, what you're saying is that YOU deserve a safe space because your opinions are valid and correct, and other people don't because theirs are wrong. I don't know, man... sounds kinda fascist if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (27 children)

Scientists do not question the concept of science. They challenge results of tests by performing new ones to replicate the proposed results.

I think maybe you need to retake some high school classes

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Scientists do not question the concept of science

Questioning the validity of science is precisely how science is done These are 2 different statements, pertaining to 2 different actions.

Both the statements are true.. err... alright, maybe not the first one as much. You can question the concept of science (which, in a way, boils down to "Question everything") and still be a scientist.

Questioning the validity of (other's and your own previous) science is a part of the concept of science.

Questioning the concept of science is more of a philosophical matter and would be valid in a quest for better concepts.

The above two statements are not actually denying each other.

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