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by ATsch 2820 days ago
>Science needs an environment free of politics.

I find this sentiment weird. Science is, to me, inherently political. As I have noted before, it's interesting how people will claim anything they don't like is "political"-> bad. You probably don't go around telling off scientists acknowledging climate change for being political, after all.

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You know that politics/money influences science when studies get published (or don't), get grants (or don't) based on whether the results match the interests of whoever wants to influence the outcome. This is inherently bad and it's weird to me you challenge that. Scientists acknowledging the climate change do just that - they publish the studies based on what's actually going on, not what someone wants to see.