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Scientific unprogress... (reddthat.com)

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Science" is so full of grifters and bullshit that I'm not surprised flat-earthism is flourishing.

"Scientists", media, politicians, etc... today: I've created an artificial intelligence!!!

"Scientists", media, politicians, etc... today: We found a bacteria (or whatever the fuck) that might solve ~~global warming~~ some climate issues that maybe don't exist!!!

Actual scientists: The planet is literally being destroyed. Primarily by cars.

People: I don't know what to believe.

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah there’s a problem with how science is portrayed to the general population. Most science is ”boring”. People want to hear about aliens, time travel and parallel universes.

Graphs showing that we should cut down our meat consumption is boring.

Stories about how a secret world state (possibly extradimensional lizards) is hiding a big ice wall from us is exciting.

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Actually the physics model to use is typically the simplest one that works, i.e. that gets the job done.

When your job is to drive a truck to the nearest city, the curvature of the Earth is negligible and it's simpler to assume that the earth is flat, so that is the model that you should use.

As such, yeah, for 99% of use cases, the earth is flat.