Anything that risks putting the conspiracy theory-wielding political hucksters under the microscope or into the spotlight is being labeled as a conspiracy itself. It's always projection with this crowd.

[–] Tankaus 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, like... another conspiracy theory?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Technically, suppressing wild conspiracy theories is suppressing conservative speech these days. Which is rather sad. Not that conservative speech was based in reality before this, but now it's just completely unhinged, anti-science clap-trap.

[+] RespectMyAuthoriteh -29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So is "science" on lemmy.world going to have politically charged social science "studies" like the Reddit version? Can't we do better here?

[–] 0Empty0 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://www.viralityproject.org/

You're allowed to have your own opinion, but here is the link to the actual research, which I thought was pretty interesting!

One of the points was about how Covid-19 conspiracy theories were just rehashed talking points of old. I won't spoil the rest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Without looking I'm going to guess it's rehashed antisemitism. Let's see if I'm right.

[–] jocanib 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you have any interest at all in science, you should have an interest in the accurate dissemination of science, and the ability of scientists to speak freely about their results without fear of political persecution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Social science is science if it follows the scientific method, which this did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly this is a pretty fun read

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