Live free or die.

Is your ego so fucking fragile you have to find something to argue and “be right” about? Who TF cares about the semantics of the definition of “Holocaust”, my God.

By the time it reaches that point, it will be far, FAR too late.

Have you read They Thought They Were Free? It’s very interesting (and terrifying), and explains exactly how your line of reasoning is dangerous and flawed. Fascism is like a disease that is much easier to nip in the bud early on. You get the classic tell tale “symptoms”, but once it’s allowed to run rampant, the cost of stopping it will be drastic.

This line of reasoning is quite surprising coming from a German. I suggest you read more about what the rise of fascism looks like.

It’s a joke bruh. Relax.

And I’ll just say too that science has explained many things, sure. But to say it’s explained “how everything got here” is so far from the truth I’m not even going to try and argue here.

Bad people are motivated by ego, power, greed, and fear. The ones at the top running things are those who desire external control because they are ego and fear driven. The exact kind of people you don’t want running the show.

Art of the deal

I think we should be looking inter dimensionally for alien life rather than extraterrestrial.

Ethical options?

Problems can be ongoing or increase in severity. Just because it’s been an issue for a while doesn’t mean it’s too late for change.

Also, some people don’t have the luxury to choose an ethical employer (if they even exist).

Airplane mode is a software shutoff system. We want hardware shutoff system.

Gotta start somewhere I guess

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Ah ok, so you seem to have misconstrued what I’ve said here and have added in your own assumptions and straw men. That’s ok, it happens to the best of us (myself included).

I’m definitely not trying to equate science with religion in every way. I just think it’s fair to acknowledge that science, being a human endeavor, isn’t immune to things like gatekeeping, resistance to new ideas, or institutional biases. That doesn’t mean science as a whole is bad or anti-progress. We’ve achieved incredible feats with science; we certainly didn’t “pray” our way to the modern automobile, or to the smartphone. All I’m saying is that, like any field, it has its challenges. And those challenges and weaknesses can be more than people or scientists like to imagine. I’m simply pointing out that dogmatism can exist anywhere, even in spaces that pride themselves on being open to new information.

The fact that you’re immediately jumping to extremes of either systemic biases in funding or absurd pseudoscience, kind of proves my point ironically. I’m a researcher at a nationally recognized university, and trust me when I say that there are many like you who seem to get their jimmies all riled up the second that someone so much as mentions that “scientific research may fall victim to dogmatism and other forms of human egoistic thought - just like religion”. It’s a strange phenomenon I’ve observed when people associate their entire identity with their specific scientific endeavors. And I get it too (and to say I don’t fall victim occasionally would be a lie). It is difficult for your ego to let go of 30 years of hard work and research, even when new data / evidence comes out to prove you wrong. It’s not easy to say “yup the research I associated my identity with the last 30 years? That’s actually all wrong”, but a good scientist is one who doesn’t attach ego to their work and remains perfectly objective. Much harder said than done- trust me.

Yeah I’m not so sure about this haha. I work in academia, and there is quite the abundance of closed mindedness and dogmatism.

You’re not attempting to try and understand what the other commenter is trying to communicate, instead making assumptions and jumping to conclusions. That is the definition of arguing in bad faith.

Also, what do you mean by woosh? Were you joking or something? I am not familiar with this term if it’s supposed to mean something.

Why are you arguing in bad faith? That’s obviously not what they meant.

Your opinions and thoughts are shaped by the totality of your experiences. That single conference is just one example. And journalists are not super human- they are human just like me and you; subject to influence and sometimes yielding to “status quo” industry norms.

He lost his 7 year old son. This was one of his drawings.

I’m sorry you think like this. You must be absolutely miserable on the inside. I hope you recognize that and get help soon.