https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra7lFFRi7b4 #science #goodrant #darkhorse

as i chirped about it #meanwhileinirc, transcribing parts, as i watched:
[2023-04- 4 15:11:42] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra7lFFRi7b4 "been going on a long time" yes. and even if you get the abstract, rather than just the title, if the paper's method etc is hidden, GAH, science faked and broken, corrupted. even with all the parts in place, available, there are many things to corrupt it, that are not easy to find. but to deny us even this... seemingly reasonably, paywalled, accademic-walled, etc... invites the hucksters
and racketeers and scientismists and groupthink obedients and intentional disinformationists and beliefist ideologists and and and.
[2023-04- 4 15:12:24] "is accessible, if they would share more information the likes of what you're supposed to do in science"
[2023-04- 4 15:14:16] yup. credentialism & silos. good little rant about the problem after that^
[2023-04- 4 15:19:00] "throughout this, we've been told: dont ask questions, dont do your own research, dont assess for yourself, simply trust the authorities who've shown up with credentials that you may or may not be able to assess, with backgrounds, and with skills that you may or may not be able to assess, and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, pay no attention to the fact that the entire system has been so so corrupted by the role of money
and federal granting agencies that the vast majority of people who are now doing science in the west at least in the US are doing little tiny reductionist pieces of science and will actually say if you ask them question outside of their little domain, 'well that's not my concern'. so why would we trust, 'y'know, WORLD HEALTH, to people who will say, 'naw, i just do this thing, i just do this little thing'"
[2023-04- 4 15:21:10] mmm. and good point about the trivialisation of science as if optional, like an affectation.
[2023-04- 4 15:22:20] albeit slightly over binary, rather than a gradient that aspirations for better science can be continually met.
[2023-04- 4 15:26:14] "paying attention to the science" is one thing, and a misplaced notion with the word "the" in that, is also itself myopic, even without the "the", lest including the softer sciences, like sociological studies, political studies, etc.