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wow i would have never detangled the convolution of words there, but my bs meter has recently been recalibrated and the first sentence set it off loudly......best CB...

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This is so absurd as to be unbelievable. When will the "real" scientists (if there are any left) stand up and say something?

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Surely you jest. Surely, this has to be parody. Let's take a soup of meaningless buzzwords and make a new science out of it! With a cool acronym!

It reminds me of many "mission statements" which are full of buzzy jabber and mean absolutely nothing.

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For them, that's exactly what science is. This should come as no surprise, because they have perverted science to that degree. We are just gobsmacked because we thought there were rules! Like the Jews in Nazi Germany, who thought, before Krystal Nacht, that things couldn't possibly get that bad, because they had laws, dammit! Then Hitler just... changed the laws. And that's what these bozos (and I do a tremendous disservice to bozos everywhere invoking them as a slur, here) do to science... because they want to. (and they can...)

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back in the day my mom earned dual PhD in biology, geology on NSF scholarship... it was her ticket out of poverty. after working in the oil industry a few years she got married and became an incredible, wonderful full time mom to her three daughters. the NSF was not pleased at this career choice and wrote her a letter inquiring why she wasn’t doing something ‘important.’ she wrote back to them that raising her daughters was the most important job one could have.

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If a field feels the need to put "science" in its name, it isn't a science.

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"Integration and Implementation Sciences"

No. Please make it stop.

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Their first line of defense was to stop recording data. Claiming data is irrelevant supports their decision to stop reporting it.

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“Understanding & managing unknowns”.

Yeah, right.

The post-Enlightenment scientific method doesn’t allow you to ignore known unknowns. You’ve to make estimates on well argued bases & assess the importance of being wrong.

On the unknown unknowns, some humility helps.

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One of my best friends is a scientist. -- he refers to the rest of us as "The non-technical class" -- love the guy, and he is brilliant, but he has gotten everything wrong over there past 25 years. Every-little-thing -wrong. But hey, 'scientists' build bombs and germs that can wipe us all out, so they're smart and stuff. and we should listen to them .... cause... uh... I always marvel at how no one really recognizes that there is only one kind of person sitting around in labs devising ways to destroy humanity. CB, write a piece on the greatest serial killers of all time aside from communists -- scientists.

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Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment because he claimed the earth rotated around the sun. These bastards are nothing new. They just change verbiage.

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Take a bunch of words. A big bunch of big words. Throw them at the paper. See what happens. 🤦

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Western science is now propaganda.

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Hide your guns.

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these overeducated do nothings are hell bent on ruining our lives it appears. Twisting language around to fit there beliefs. Then putting on lab coats and declaring to the sheeple, "follow the science" The sheeple are too dumb that the science they mean is a made of fiction created out of thin air by overpaid, dishonest intellectuals.

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When I was a youngster I learned to shovel this stuff. Tons of it - over the years. But there ain't a shovel big enough ...

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