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Disinformation researchers under investigation: what’s happening and why (www.nature.com)

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US researchers have spent years studying how conspiracy theories spread. Now they are accused of helping to suppress conservative opinions.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm sorry, did you just compare the social sciences to children's toys?

Science isn't just test tubes and telescopes and super colliders. I'm sorry you're so incurious about the world that you apparently only care about the inanimate parts of it.