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Nah, you’re just lazy. You’re not supposed to read every single piece of research in existence. No one person does that. Not even the scientists. But if the topic interests you enough for you to comment about it and there is a research paper that you can read, then just read the dang paper or let other people make decisions for you. Nobody has to give you the truth. And, on top of that, even if the results of researc…
> Nobody has to give you the truth. Then you have to figure it out for yourself. For everything . Which, again, doesn't scale. At some point you do need to trust some people to make some decisions for you. But what kind of fool trusts someone with a conflict of interest?
Science isn’t a matter of trust, it’s a matter of verifiable results. The results of a scientific research paper must be repeatable by a third party following the same methods. Go see the merits of the research: it’s methodology, its results. If everyone simply looked at a list of funders and went “welp... this research is biased and invalid”, then we would have hardly any “valid” research.