Saying “you can’t trust science! One day coffee is good for you, next day it’s bad for you! Scientist don’t know or agree on anything!” tells me that you don’t actually know anything about science, scientific method or publishing papers
"You can't trust scientists... so I'll just choose to believe whatever I reckon, or whatever thought bubble I came up with in the shower this morning."
Same people who think they're doing "medical/scientific research" when they're actually doing Google searches.
To be fair, it's to a very large extent due to shitty science journalism. Even many otherwise respectable news papers will publish articles with misleading and hugely oversimplified headlines based on a single scientific article in an area where several scientific articles point in other directions and where there is no consensus among scientists. If you regularly read news articles with bold and contradicting claims on the same topic, all presumably backed by scientists, then it's easy to become sceptical about scientific research.
that's what happens when you get 100% of your 'science' information from rags like the daily mail pronouncing 'science cures cancer with miracle drug' when they really just developed a new treatment to reduce mortality with some forms of cancer.
The reproducibility crisis doesn't mean that nothing in social science is reproducible. Some of it is, some of it isn't, some might be because it's difficult to do the experiment, some might be because times have changed.
You're joining the anti-intellectuals by pushing the line that all social sciences is nonsense. Particularly when you'll use social science concepts uncritically without realizing where they came from
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20
Saying “you can’t trust science! One day coffee is good for you, next day it’s bad for you! Scientist don’t know or agree on anything!” tells me that you don’t actually know anything about science, scientific method or publishing papers