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Regarding 1, science makes zero progress on an entertainment show. The correct way to scientific redress is through publication of peer-reviewed literature. That's how you get mainstream acceptance in science. Science is not the consensus of opinions in the general public. Quite the contrary.

Come back to me when Nature censors something for ideological reasons.



> Come back to me when Nature censors something for ideological reasons.

I would be genuinely surprised to find this hasn't already happened.


> science makes zero progress on an entertainment show

Someone better tell Bill Nye and Niel.


I watched a little Bill Nye as a kid but it didn't teach me anything at all about the scientific method or falsification.

That may have been my own fault - I don't remember enough to know.

Just saying.




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