When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on.

[diazona@techhub.social]

@yon @dougiec3 @jascha Personally I would consider not killing the patient to be an intrinsic part of the definition of "cure" but this is still funny 😂

[zombiecide@polyglot.city]

@knowprose I believe it's a systemic vs individual issue thing. Systemic bias is not intentional, but also harder to spot than individual prejudice. Like how me and many other women who consider themselves modern feminists still perpetuate(d) a "deal with it" attitude regarding period pain, which discourages those with very painful cysts and endometriosis from seeking diagnosis. Not intentional, but we need to do better

I'm sorry to hear about your father and hope he still could get treatment.

[yon@sakurajima.moe]

@diazona @dougiec3 @jascha Not just cancer either. It’s kind of a general things. Yes it’s tongue in cheek :) But it’s why there’s phases etc. I don’t think most are aware of how medical research works, they just see the (BS) headlines.

(I don’t have the know how to understand medical research etc. Just know a bit about parts of the process as a guinea pig.)

[dougiec3@libretooth.gr]

@yon @diazona @jascha
I've dabbled in guinea piggery myself.

[gobabu@mastodon.social]

@jascha
Dont look up or Idiocracy?
Global warming: Humanity? Well done.

[xenotrope@bsd.network]

@jascha Today I learned I'm a scientist.

[pussreboots@sfba.social]

@jascha 💯

[raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@joemug @jascha it's a big thing on most social media/youtube. Make some extreme claim of some miracle product that "scientists have been hiding" to sell some snakeoil through an affiliate link or personal store, or just completely made up for the views and ad revenue.

You can also replace scientist with "gardener", "mechanic" whatever and see much the same, and the related "I stopped going to the store/etc and do X instead" tagline.

[brouhaha@mastodon.social]

@jascha
They use that line as clickbait, but it doesn't work on anyone who has the slightest clue about science and scientists.

[montgomerygator@fouroclockfarms.club]

@jascha I recently heard about Radiation Hormesis, or the theory (as in scientific theory backed by data and currently under testing and review) that some radiation in your environment is actually good because it stimulates DNA repair mechanisms that also tend to catch and repair DNA damage from other causes like oxidative stress.

They badly want you to know, you can google Radiation Hormesis... But they also want you to know that the data isn't quite fully in yet.

[kerravonsen@mastodon.au]

@wendythedruid @jascha And climate change deniers.

[fracicone@mastodon.uno]

@jascha https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116166166481969236

[catriona@tech.lgbt]

@elduvelle @csolisr Influencing the results is one thing, but there is definitely a bias in funding bodies towards funding research that will show short-term economic benefit over research that will have longer-term or non-economic benefit.

[prisma@chaos.social]

@jascha ❤️