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Originally Posted by Marie Monday
No idea what all those 3 letter acronyms stand for but I believe what you're saying about the republican party trying to mess with science to suit their own ends. But science should be independent of governments anyway, and apart from grants etc. coming form governments, scientific results from universities are just that: they are peer reviewed by an international community of scientists.
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Well. These days whatever you believe you can find a scientist with a peer reviewed study to back you up and “consensus” has also been deeply politicized. Hopefully, in America, our current government can rebuild faith in institutions where a typical person can be like ok this is the legit consensus of the scientific community based on what they know at this point. It doesn’t mean like the CDC says it so it’s closed. Science always has to challenge the prevailing ideas to progress. But people still need a legit trusted authority for simple **** like fluoride or how often you should eat eggs what supplements are safe how dangerous is herpes or whatever it is. Right now imo Americans don’t have that. When I was a kid there was corruption but it wasn’t like the complete decay we have now. Right now we’re ****ing lost.