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by uonpopular_th 1204 days ago
I used to agree until I saw what has happened to biology in the last few years.

Economics is a science as good as any other. It's just that a lot of people with a lot of money want it to say something so it does. No science is insulated from its practitioners being bought out and the few with principles being silenced.
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sethaurus 1204 days ago
> I used to agree until I saw what has happened to biology in the last few years.

I'm missing the context here — could you expand on what's happened to biology?

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uonpopular_th 1204 days ago
The bureaucrats who should have been enabling and coordinating scientists instead decided what the policy should be for Covid19 and ruined the lives/careers of anyone who did not fall in line.

The worst of these decisions by far was the policy that covid was spread by aerosols and not airborne: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7

This was nothing short of Lysenkoism in the 21st century.

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