MacNCheezus

Thanks for your opinion but I didn't deny any science, all I said is I don't fault people for questioning it.

Also, your insults are unnecessary and childish and don't really help your argument. I've argued my case respectfully and without name-calling, and I suggest you do the same.

So you're saying the cure for bootlicking is becoming a teacher's pet? Isn't that just bootlicking with extra steps?

No, and neither do people who question the results, which is, in fact, what most "anti-science" people do.

Skepticism is part of the scientific method. Blind faith is not.

1. Strawman. I didn’t say I disagree with it, I just listed some valid reasons for why people might.

2. Yeah, okay, I get it, you just hate them. That’s allowed of course. I’m just pointing out that hating them for hating you makes you no better than them.

3. Of course it’s stealing, your justifications don’t change that. Like I said, I don’t think it’s objectionable when it’s done for legitimate reasons (like if the company removes access for something you already bought and paid for), and forgivable if you’re too broke to afford it, but it’s stealing nevertheless.

1. The problem with “big science” is that the ordinary person has no conceivable means by which to verify any of their claims, they have to be taken by faith. And there have been many, many cases in the past where this turned out to be a mistake. Unlike what some people will have you believe, science is never really settled, things that used to be the common consensus have turned out to be wrong many times in the past. What makes you think that nowadays, we’re somehow past all that, just because our methods are more precise than our forefathers’? Why should the knowledge we have now be the end-all-be-all when not too long ago, doctors used to prescribe cigarettes as a treatment for asthma?

2. Okay, but that’s just an opinion, not scientific consensus. People on Parler think the Fediverse is full of pedophiles, does that give them the right to shut it down?

3. I don’t care about stealing as long as there’s a legitimate need and it’s not just out of laziness or greed. I used to pirate my games and software when I was too broke to afford them, but once I started earning more money, I gave up on that and started paying for them, even though pirating would have sometimes been easier or more convenient.

1. 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.

2. 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.

“Stealing I can accept, but having an opinion that’s different from my own is where I draw the line.”