Real Life conundrum

[Brooke]

I have been a scientist in my career and worked in scientific areas for decades, with and among many other scientists.

Science is excellent.

But --

People who don't work in science tend to think that science is pure and that scientists always work in a scientific way.

Yet science has plenty of politics, empire building, massaging data, competing groups that dogmatically adhere to their group's theories and undermine the opposition, cliquish behavior of "in groups" and "out groups" with respect to publication, funding, getting academic positions, etc.  It's not all like that, of course, but some is.

The good thing is that, despite science being done by humans and having some of those imperfections, over enough time, science tends to give us increasingly better understandings and estimates.  But there can be detours in the shorter term.

[Animl-AW]

And thar ya go

[Meatwad]

I have been a scientist in my career and worked in scientific areas for decades, with and among many other scientists.

Science is excellent.

But --

People who don't work in science tend to think that science is pure and that scientists always work in a scientific way.

Yet science has plenty of politics, empire building, massaging data, competing groups that dogmatically adhere to their group's theories and undermine the opposition, cliquish behavior of "in groups" and "out groups" with respect to publication, funding, getting academic positions, etc.  It's not all like that, of course, but some is.

The good thing is that, despite science being done by humans and having some of those imperfections, over enough time, science tends to give us increasingly better understandings and estimates.  But there can be detours in the shorter term.

Better watch out, or the chronic reporter in here will report you for speaking the truth

[Eagler]

Problem is covid screwed up the trust most of us still had in our health department..

Then there is the fact they are saying more and more kids have mental issues and are on the "spectrum" now..a spectrum that changes with each new behavioral issue they can tuck into it..

It might be vaccines, might be plastic in our brains, who knows...

Just good to see someone try to figure it out instead just going along with the $$$ trail as it has been until now..

Eagler