When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on.
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@luboganev @jascha i will absolutely put it at the bottom of my list of weekend projects to do someday when I have weekends in which to do projects.
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@jascha Also, "they paid off the scientists to say [something untrue]" (or to hide the truth) is another sign that the speaker doesn't know a damn thing about scientists (and probably has an axe to grind and/or some snake oil to sell you).
If they were that motivated by money, they wouldn't have gone into science in the first place. They'd have gotten an MBA or something.
@kagan @jascha As a historian of science I can state that this claim hasn’t stood up since at least the 1950s and that the introduction of NDAs into the grant process about 20 years ago has made hiding the results more common than we might expect.
The most glaring recent example being the climate scientists at Shell who never disclosed their research but most commonly it happens in medical research. -
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
“The only thing I can think of is maybe I didn’t talk enough about coelacanths?”
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@jascha Which was always why I found the fake Moon landing claims so hilarious. The number of nerdy talkative scientists and engineers they'd have had to keep silent was in the thousands and yet not one came forward with evidence of the fake. Hmmmm.
@azphilosopher @jascha also all the Hollywood people that need to make all the props, even if you hired them for an unknown project or a film you "cancel" later they would recognize their own work once it's on TV
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Science is only as unbiased as the researcher, and given that most people (even women) carry unconscious bias against women, there is little chance that this issue will be addressed so easily. The same goes for racial bias. Knowing about the problem doesn't alleviate it, huge changes must be made, studies replicated, new investigations carried out.
Misogyny can be overt or not & through direct and indirect means. Neglect of female health is misogyny & wasn't accidental.
@GutterPoetry @jascha I have no question that there is bias. That's part of being human.
Which is where peer reviews, etc, come in.
As to specific biases that you are pointing to... I don't have specific data so I cannot comment on it.
The whole point of science, imho, it to fill in holes in our knowledge and to ask better questions.
Do you have any ideas on how to improve on the issues you perceive?
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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
@jascha yaasss!
Exceptions:
- it's not actually a scientist but someone trying to claim the mantle of science to legitimize something that isn't science
- it's a scientist talking about something other than science (ex, I don't particularly want you to know the pin number for my bank card)
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@jascha yaasss!
Exceptions:
- it's not actually a scientist but someone trying to claim the mantle of science to legitimize something that isn't science
- it's a scientist talking about something other than science (ex, I don't particularly want you to know the pin number for my bank card)
@jascha Even with controversial topics like climate change, scientists generally *want* people to know; they just don't trust many of the common channel for communicating. Media are usually more interested in hyping sensation than conveying nuance.
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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
@jascha I mean … right … have you ever met a scientist?! -
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Scientists generally want you to know, the people that finance their work on the other hand? It depends on how marketable is the discovery
@csolisr I've never personally experienced or even remotely heard of a funder trying to influence the results of a study (and been a scientist for about 15 years now). I'm sure it can happen but it will be a negligible minority.
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@jascha they want you to know so bad, they've devised a whole elaborate system around publishing their research.
They're holding regular conferences and publish everything that's been presented there as "proceedings".
They _teach_ at public institutions to make sure more people know each year.
They want you to know! That's literally their job
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@jascha Lest they be working more for profit, than higher ethics.
I went to school with a couple of eventual billionaire lobbyists. Quite bright scientists.
@numodular @jascha "quite bright" is "dim".
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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
@jascha I'm going to spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of euros to find this thing out, and then I'm just gonna not tell anyone what I spent the hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of euro to find out. My little secret
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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
@jascha Married to a scientist. Toot personally verified.
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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
It’s kind of funny for anyone to make that assertion in a publish or perish world
