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Science and consensus being wrong sometimes doesn't mean we have to actively promote widely debunked crap. Or that we cannot boycott and complain about it.

I'd say we can even call for it to no longer be published. And if it can be shown to actively cause significant harm the legal system can respond.




> doesn't mean we have to actively promote widely debunked crap

If it's so widely debunked then why do you care? Should be easy to shoot down on a debate. Oh and you don't have to listen.


Nor most I support publishers profiting from such crap. Or even stay silent when it is given credence by popular hosts.


Yes exactly! Censorship is how we move science forward!


You jest but elevating reproducible evidence and refuting sloppy 'evidence'/analysis is how science advances.


And neither of those are censorship.

To refute sloppy analysis, the sloppy analysis must be published and available.


Science journals do not publish bunk papers because there is no value in publishing facially wrong things


Right but JRE isn't a science journal, and neither is Spotify?


Shutting down psuedoscience prevents science from moving backward.


Citation? I assume you have some scientific evidence to support such an assertion.


I must assume you're being serious in my response, but this really does not feel like a genuine effort was put in when forming this take.

Science follows the scientific method. Pseudoscience, definitionally, is anything that identifies as science but does not follow the scientific method. A study is not needed to demonstrate that not following the scientific method lessens the usage of the scientific method. No one would bother peer reviewing or publishing trivial work. It is a waste of time.


> A study is not needed to demonstrate that not following the scientific method lessens the usage of the scientific method

Again, you're treating this as a given when it is anything but. Sure, pseudoscience means you're not doing science, but people promoting pseudoscience weren't necessarily going to being doing science instead / the people listening to them wouldn't necessarily be listening to science instead. In other words, science and pseudoscience are not a zero-sum game. In fact, the existence / publication of pseudoscience could actually galvanize "real" scientists to do more work than they otherwise would've to prove things scientifically. Not saying this is the case, but again, your assertion is far from a given.

Also, although we like to pretend that "science" is some concrete ideal, it is really not. For example, I mainly consider things to be scientific in line with Karl Popper's thinking re: falsifiability, which would cause me to lump a lot of "science" done today in the "not super sciency" category alongside some of the more clearly bunk pseudoscience.




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