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

[erd@gei.st]

@jascha I mean … right … have you ever met a scientist?!

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@dougiec3 @jascha Indeed it is.

[scogings@mastodon.world]

@leeloo @RogerBW @jascha Only Greeks?

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@csolisr I've never personally experienced or even remotely heard of a funder trying to influence the results of a study (and been a scientist for about 15 years now). I'm sure it can happen but it will be a negligible minority.

[scogings@mastodon.world]

@wall_e @jascha we beat our heads on walls and end up battered as a result.

[scogings@mastodon.world]

@numodular @jascha "quite bright" is "dim".

[iwillyeah@mastodon.ie]

@jascha I'm going to spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of euros to find this thing out, and then I'm just gonna not tell anyone what I spent the hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of euro to find out. My little secret 🙊

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@jascha Married to a scientist. Toot personally verified.

[leeloo@chaosfem.tw]

@scogings @RogerBW @jascha
The man who is known to have done the calculation back then was Greek.

He may not have been the only one or the first.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@jascha

It’s kind of funny for anyone to make that assertion in a publish or perish world

[darksheeparts@mastoart.social]

@jascha I can confirm this - my brother is a biochemist and he has one research project he was on that he still tells people about at bus stops.

[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.