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

[luboganev@androiddev.social]

@travisfw @jascha sounds like an appropriate weekend project. Too bad I'm a noob in web frontend.

[cliffsesport@mastodon.social]

@jascha ah yes aka "nerd vomit"

[capeta@ursal.zone]

@jascha that makes total sense in the real world. but you cannot overlook the fact that these motherfuckas are LARPing.

[joemug@mastodon.social]

@jascha TBH, I've never heard the phrase "Scientists do not want you to know" spoken or written before today.
Joys of picking and choosing my life in a sane community/city/state/family.

[freequaybuoy@mastodon.social]

@jascha "Scientists SHOCKED by..." thing scientists researched, painstakingly gathered evidence for, wrote and, crucially, *published* a paper on.

[zy@sunny.garden]

@GutterPoetry these studies aren't very sciencely imo
@knowprose @jascha

[noodlemaz@mstdn.games]

@csolisr this obsession with demonising funders is the same strand of anti-science, honestly.
Most funders are also people, part of an org set up to... Fund science.

Globally, much research is funded by governments (so via taxes, interested in R&D and the benefits to local areas that brings, primarily), charities (and ultimately citizens for the most part) and industry. And some big donors, but again mostly because they have pet causes.
Sure there can be some conflicts of interest with industry and government and wealthy individuals. But overwhelmingly it's just... Funding.

It's disclosed in publications. The scrutiny should be on scammers - in the US, medical insurance systems for example, and the 'wellness industry', multibillion dollars wasted on trash studied and marketing worldwide. And 'alt med'.

This idea that scientists' funders are all out there making nefarious decisions and invalidating research findings is just as rubbish as making scientists out to be evil secret-hoarders.

[yon@sakurajima.moe]

@dougiec3 @jascha Might be related to how there are a lot of “cures” for cancer that never became a product.

Because killing cancer is pretty easy. The problem is not killing the patient. What’s impossible is for the media to not wildly incorrectly report on things:/

[twotired@universeodon.com]

@luboganev @jascha “One simple trick” for avoiding clickbait.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@jascha Scientists would duct tape you to a chair and infodump it if they could.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@LexYeen @sverik @jascha Can confirm.

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

@noodlemaz Not entirely wrong there! There are both good and bad patrons of science - in one side we have government agencies, public universities, specific charities, while on the other side we have... governments, universities and charities whose funds are ultimately controlled by people with less charitable interests. It's less of a damnation of science in general, and more of a sad reality of current capitalism.

[madengineering@mastodon.cloud]

@jascha Scientologists don't want you to know.