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Comment by Shadi_Shin at 01/09/2021 at 21:24 UTC
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"simply appealing to 'peer reviewed science' is foolish"
Still better than appealing to bullshit conspiracy youtube videos and facebook posts put out by nuts with no qualifications, wouldn't you agree?
"You need rigorous assessment of the validity of a piece or field of research"
Which would be done by qualified researchers and scientists. Being a "skeptic" does not automatically qualify someone to evaluate the validity of a piece of published research. Just because the process is imperfect does not mean the opinions of joe schmoe are on equal footing to those of the medical field, nor does it mean you should just dismiss any and all medical advice on a whim as flawed just because sometimes it might be.
Comment by TurboLover6969 at 01/09/2021 at 22:22 UTC
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A lot of the people you are speaking with here have a faith-based relationship with ‘science’. They don’t understand the prevalence of corporate sponsorship or bias or the dynamics of power behind the scenes. They are just angry, naive herd animals.