[mancerayder]

Science evolves and sometimes it's good to use your brain. You're probably too young to remember science pushing fat and cholesterol being bad, which not-so-helpfully contributed to a massive sugar push in the US in the 80s. And I'm sure you remember the push for mask usage and social distancing during COVID, while science told us that 'racism is a health emergency' to help justify street protests.

It's a good balance to care about science while still maintaining a human brain with independent thoughts.

[jjav]

> It's a good balance to care about science while still maintaining a human brain with independent thoughts.

What do you think science is? The whole point of science is questioning assumptions and applying data gathering and independent thought to analyzing that data.

[mancerayder]

I fully agree. For some people, science is appealing to authority, though, that is the nuance here.

Are we doing studies ourselves? Of course not. Are we reviewing a multitude of papers ourselves? We generally don't have the time.