• pinkdrunkenelephants
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    1 year ago

    Public research exists and this is a gross misrepresentation of science intended to discredit it.

    Research being privately funded doesn’t even mean it’s biased or untrustworthy. Most people in the world, even evil people, need resources that work and sometimes have to foot the bill to get them developed themselves, and that includes research.

    Damn. The scientific world isn’t perfect but it is overall a lot better, less biased and much better than the unscientific world where corruption is absolutely rampant everywhere and people openly dismiss facts they don’t like.

    There’s an actual real talk that needs to be had about this but it can’t be had when obvious fucking charlatans take advantage of it to discredit science. The U.S. government still funds 44% of basic research in the U.S. despite the big drop from the 60’s and 70’s but that doesn’t really mean all that much. This asshole is just making a mountain out of a molehill to tell you no one should believe in science.