"People did science wrong therefore science bad"
"People found results I didn't like therefore science bad"
"People studied thing I didn't like therefore science bad"
"Some nerd doesn't leave his room therefore science bad"

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@matrix
Treating science as a monolith is part of the problem. It's a human endeavor with some rules for attempted self-correction but it's just as corruptible as, say, FIFA rules or an HR Company.
For me, I just really hate the "I fucking love science" crowd. I had to write on the history of peer review and came across things like Retraction Watch where you can watch the science sausage being made. ProTip: It ain't pretty.

Highly recommended to deluded optimists and "peer reviewed" paper fans.

retractionwatch.com/
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@nobullyplz
Yeah, peer review means nothing. It's basically "Your paper contains grammatically correct sentences".

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