nothing to see here :)

Does anyone remember all the bogus studies that showed smoking was healthy?

Also corporations tie employment of scientists to the number of papers they publish, as well as burying data that is financially harmful.

Critical theory, my beloved

scientists are like gold prospectors dependent on assayers for their continuing in the mine

Does anybody understand what this meme is trying to say? I feel like its pretty obvious

Even if you follow the rules strictly, confirmation bias can kick in... which is basically "always" because you have to start somewhere and will think a certain way.

Based on that argument, why bother? /s

Yes and? Is the premise that capital only chooses bad things to research?

I dunno about science, but truth is proof. That just infers that science is various forms of proof, and I'm ok with that as it lets our notion of proof evolve as we do ^_^