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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

But it does. Cigarettes were healthy and climate change didn't exist 50 years ago

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There was never any science saying "cigarettes are healthy".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Define healthy. Nicotine is a stimulant and does improve mental acuity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Neither of those things were backed by science. Confusing convincing lobbying with science is a problem today was it was then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean those things didn't change, it was just about how research was manipulated by money and human biases.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The truth doesn’t change. Scientific consensus does. Scientific consensus has been wrong on countless things. After all, science is about getting things a little less wrong every time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Exactly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Yes but science is a process, not a thing, and that process is corruptible.

There is a differentiation between the natural world for how it's made and the human process that quantifies that knowledge.

Science has always changed, just like human culture did