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by ConfuciusSay02
3439 days ago
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Scientists are humans operating in large institutions. It is undeniable that humans and human-run institutions are subject to all the same corrupting factors that every other person or institution is. It's alarming that most of the comments here start off with the default of "the science must be true". Science as a process is virtually infallible, but science as practiced by humans in human-run institutions is very very far from infallible. |
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Hyper group-think is one of the more unfortunate aspects of our modern technological dilemma. Places like HN breed it. I find it utterly despicable...it's as if most of the people here are willfully incapable of considering any point of view except their own.
If you disagree with the local group-think in the slightest, you just get censored and your words start fading away into nothingness. It's such crap.
I have designs for a new, better commenting and comment voting system could solve this problem. The up/down vote is so childish and overly simplistic. I look forward to a time when people get sick of it and finally change to something better.