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It is quite sad that even in Hacker News are people lacking basic knowledge on how science works.



It's hard, because sometimes I'm told "The science is settled" then other times I'm told it's always changing.


"Settled" does not mean it cannot be tweaked by new information.

It is best explained by Isaac Asimov in his small essay "The Relativity of Wrong"[0].

[0]: https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html


Oh we know how it works. Science was bought out by Big industry a long time ago and is as much of a religion as Christianity


I don't think this forum is suited to your kind of short sighted opinions. Life is more complicated than your black and white world view.


Except it’s not. Because that’s exactly what happened with sugar. Why are studies funded by Big Food 10x more likely to say sugar is ok? Coincidence, right? Science isn’t as objective as you think.




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