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by hirundo 2232 days ago
There is also harm to telling them other incorrect facts, but we generally consider a ministry of truth to be a bad idea. Yet we tolerate the ministry of food and drug truth. This story underlines the cost of that.
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I expect the ministry of food science and the ministry of drug science to be scientific. That's quite different from what you're talking about.

I have noticed that your comment is quite typical for people who want to say that we live in a post-truth world. There are certainly problems, but one solution is to double down on science.