I’ve been very critical of the scientific establishment. They’ve given me a ton of reasons to be, up to and including the fact that researchers knew it was likely that COVID-19 came from a lab leak and falsified their research for political reasons.
So yeah, I’m not ready to accept The Science (TM) at face value.
And I think something needs to be done about the issues we have in science as a whole, which are many and varied and not just the result of political bias.
But at least one proposed fix might be just as bad as the problem it’s meant to address.
See, some are suggesting that we criminalize scientific fraud, and on one level, I like the way that sounds. Especially considering how things have gone. Yet someone smarter than me has pointed out that it could be a terrible idea.
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