• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    That is because politics is all about certainty and the appearance of knowing everything.

    When a politician changes their mind on something they are seen as weak. “If they change their mind of this, how can we trust anything they say?”

    Science is all about what the evidence tells us. If new data shows that our previous notions were incorrect, we must change our minds.

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    7 months ago

    Politics isn’t interested in truth? Who could have guessed that?

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        7 months ago

        Not really. They’re saying when politics invades science, it leads to pseudoscience. Regardless of where it lives, politics is never interested in truth.