this is g.w. news live from berlin and scientists in india accuse the government of ignoring warnings of a deadly new coronavirus variance advisers blame politicians failures for the devastating 2nd wave of coverage 19 now overwhelming the health service also on the program one of germany's talked to seaside tourist attractions reopens for a month as a test case can be saved tourism despite the pandemic. i'm

all out psycho welcome to the program scientists in india are accusing the government of ignoring warnings of a new more dangerous berrien of the corona virus a forum of advisers says ministers fail to impose large scale restrictions despite the alerts in march mass political and religious rallies have since been cited as a super spreader events a 2nd wave of covert 19 has left india battling record numbers of deaths and infections. india is struggling as the pandemic 2nd wave crashes over the country death and desperation are spreading so too is the fear that the government can stem the surge and end india's suffering. when the case is started i think that the plan. by. turns out they didn't write in the 1st week i

understood that the government had no idea they're not prepared for anything that they don't have it up until later than one was ordered to get about although whatever anybody attached to the argument that if you and just one example 12 coby 1000 patients died this weekend when a hospital in the capital ran out of oxygen supply for nearly an hour and a half of one of them in favor of the friend patients. is the oxygen they need support because these are to be so cross 50. feet of increased demand in the hospital according to early says it will start punishing government officials for failing to deliver lifesaving items but it's impossible to give what is not yet available the international community spent the weekend sending supplies grieving loved ones and scientists blame elected officials for the worsening situation they accuse state and federal governments of ignoring medical

advice and warnings about variance. we need to treat the government. and may be election workers are going to go. big big change things i don't i don't know so i'm just hoping you know they stick to their words prime minister narendra modi and his ruling hindu nationalist party may be paying the price for their handling of the virus they suffered an upset in west bengal and failed to make gains in 2 other key state election it's. a sign that most political strength may be slipping as the pandemic tightens its grip . our correspondents minera childred joins me now from delhi the government is facing criticism for not listening to warnings from scientists this week and key elections were held in india how did november modi's governing policy fare at the

ballot box author all the criticism. well getting was once that the national the ship it was and had all its money and might be trying to win the election but we all saw yesterday that is that's going to be shipping lost that state but it will be a little far fetched to savor this defeat was to them as a punishment of the family because. most of the falling things in the state last fall the 2nd wave actually and we. saw the quentin so perhaps the last 2 years well impacted by that the defeat actually more to do with the fact that the local population of the state that's been or did not actually agree with. this. but one thing and he certainly said that this defeat has gone as a me just sent back to the government and they're already facing a lot of criticism for the way they have been handling the situation and have also been accused of focusing more on the boards rather than the band and not months or

out so i may just set back there in west bengal now what has the government done to to defend its handling of the 2nd wave. we have not seen a lot of direct responses coming to the allegations that the government has been facing and at the critics say that the government has not been out free to a lot of boredom and questions which are being raised specially since the secondly started what the s.c. is that is the political leaning in the center and of the specially you know the national capital which is the attitude stage right now but over the past few days more details have come out including scientists saying that the government ignored their twenty's left that reportedly that the nationals who were dots all did not meet for 2 months in tendering much in the case of and began to rats. last year india shut down on the very short notice to now expert government advisers are pushing for another nationwide lockdown how likely are we to see that happening

again you're right the opposition are nationwide long don't you the supreme. have been urging the center to consider the opportunity of a lockdown but have you seen the reports look or doing this also is saying that the government is probably are likely to have all the nationwide long don't do what we saw a lot because the economy will be back to jobs will be lost the government will face a backlash so it is more probable that the done when the os the states do consider more look like lockdowns in their own territory but the situation is changing and already every day they're not sure what decisions will be taken in the meetings. many thanks d.-w. correspondent miro toward reid and delhi. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. young activists in me and maher have staged nationwide rallies calling for others to join them in

a spring revolution witnesses say security forces shot several demonstrators dead a series of explosions rocked the city of yangon it's been 3 months since the military seized power in a coup. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has arrived in london for the 1st in person meeting of the g. 7 group of leaders leading nations in 2 years top of the agenda is dealing with russian disinformation british foreign secretary dominic rob says the west needs like minded allies to work together. residents along dan's order with to gie christan have been returning to their damaged homes days after thousands were forced to flee from clashes more than 30 people died in a flare up of tensions between the 2 former soviet states a cease fire now to be holding. for astronauts have returned safely to earth after spending nearly 6 months on board the international space station

their dragon capsule touched down in the sea off the coast of florida it was the 1st crew mission run by the last space x. company on behalf of nasa. crew. one of germany's most popular tourist attractions is reopening this month the island of silt in the north sea is welcoming visitors again in a test of whether hospitality can be safe despite the pandemic hotels and restaurants are happy to have business but some locals fear the return of visitors could put them at risk. yes we'll have hello and welcome please register with the app then so now you're booked. how do you have your test results test that you don't want your phone on a. data collector and test checker this restaurant owner can only admit guests who have checked in with a contract tracing app and provide negative carona tests this is somewhat if you

want it's a good feeling we're back and we're here for our guests that's what makes me really happy. of course there are many requirements that we have to fulfill it's taken a lot of work is rushing here. yes the moment i understand. the 30 i don't think we're more likely to get infected here than at home and schtick because we're being cautious and following all the hygiene rules and off i'd miss 1000000 guns and the tests give us a sense of security and money and again this is the doctor if you test. visitors to silk need a negative test no more than a day old to go to a restaurant and 2 days to stay in a hotel room but some residents think the strict testing strategy alone isn't enough the 18000 full time residents share the island with 62000 beds for tourists and 14000 vacation homes. trucking south really doesn't inspire how

will they keep track of 2nd home owners when they rent out their places to friends and family how do we know those people will also be tested be out get out you got on the death of a fish to test the bit they both have to offer it could have no one asked any of us doctors here for our opinion mccain began that they should have waited at least 2 months before letting interest is not so the people who live here and work here can reach herd immunity went off the opposite of a focal point i should not have started until then on that employer they should stop and go from. a normal temperature and a vaccination record the requirements to stay at a hotel guests with 2 jabs don't need to show a negative test. we've had so many lock downs now i'm using this as a get away from the day to day stress it's important because we want to get back to normal. but for hotel owners the situation is anything but normal.

i want to get back to work i want to put up guests for the night i enjoy it and i also have to get back to making an income because you know everyone's looking at us to see what happens if we make any mistakes the point the finger but if it works we're trailblazers oh and. eager to get out of the house after more than a year of restrictions germans will be watching still to see if it's safe again to go on holiday. has a ballet nah back in action and the bonus league offer a 2 week coronavirus quarantine the club currently 2nd from boston they're up against minds who are also looking at relegation the results could determine whether can hang on in the top me here to berlin season came to a halt maybe april the last match they played was against club by and they didn't leave if he had that draw he did

a 3 game run where he had to pick up 5 points with their momentum was put on hold after coach start i did several players return positive covert 19 tests currently and 17th on the table here to have 3 matches to make up starting with months and coached are done i believe they can do enough to free themselves from relegation danger the not from these 3 games we need at least 4 points at least i'd be happy if we get more 97 it doesn't matter but it has to be at least 4 that's what i expect from the team and they'll have to deal with that pressure and i don't think it's too much pressure because it shiva will go i think they'll manage it. covert 19 has kept some hits of players still sidelined goalkeeper rooney you are stuck suffered badly and is out for the rest of the seize it. with no real match

practice handsome face an uphill battle when they meet my side riding high after a defeat in byron munich. the german football association wants its president to resign after he compared his deputy to an infamous infamous nazi judge fritz admits he made a serious mistake but is refusing to stand down he's been in the job for 2 years the association is the world's biggest single sports federation with more than 7000000 members. a pitch invasion forced english football and giants manchester united to postpone a match against rivals liverpool fans for demonstrating against the club's american owners united was among the 12 clubs who attempted to form a breakaway european super league the project collapsed after rez resistance from supporters angry fans also block the manchester team bus bringing players to the game supporters want united's owners to sell the club. in formula

one lewis hamilton has extended his lead by winning the portuguese grand prix hamilton started in 2nd place behind but terry bosses the bridge past his mercedes team mates and held off a challenge from red bulls max pushed up and to claim his 97th grand prix when running champion hamilton is chasing a record 8th title he's now won 2 of the season's 3 races. one of the world's top selling artists is beaming an message of hope that a post pandemic age is dawning david hockney has created a giant animated sunrise lighting up london's piccadilly circus the video is also on show throughout may in new york los angeles tokyo and seoul the 83 year old painter drew the artwork at his home in france on a tablet. you're

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the 21st century human world is insatiable. with a constant demand for more technology more convenience and comfort more products on more shelves a lifestyle that also raises a growing number of issues what exactly is happening in the fields and farms that feed us. and in our medication. has industrialization turned our world toxic. it's an issue of growing global concern. citizens on the streets accuse industry of hiding the truth from us as the corporations defend then deny power. are we to judge which side is right.

so we turned to science asking researchers to be the arbiters of this argument. surely they should know best. except that scientists who do step into the fray are then themselves targeted and are subject to influence corruption and indoctrination . we're living in a world where there are many people who have a vested interest in fighting information fighting scientific evidence and discrediting even the notion that science could provide the truth about the natural world there are tension really seeking to science the 1st step is to identify these attacks and then expose the machinations of those trying to stand in the way of knowledge and in that context it's essential for us to understand who these people are what they do why they do it and how they do it. and we have to

understand how it is that the public sometimes participates in the spreading of this deliberate ignorance so we need to visit this landscape of manufactured ignorance. like most of the developed world northern greece has seen a collapse of b. colonies a phenomenon that's been observed since the 1990 s. it's become a textbook case for the manufacture of confusion and culturally induced ignorance. here too it began with an enigma with experts on able to explain what was happening and why it was a complete mystery. why was so many bees suddenly dying t.v. reports showed beekeepers and complete despair there will be no i don't believe. then a suspect was found a new generation of insecticide. in our fields the latest innovation of the agro

chemical industry products containing multiple active ingredients every syngenta formulation is the result of years of careful investigation and thorough research by our scientists a coincidence that bees started dying in their millions once these new products were being sprayed on our crops active ingredients which is why very quickly a suspicion started filling in that direction could scientists solve the case. funny how gina has been searching for the truth in research at her bee hives and in the lab and we scientists with the help of beekeepers must find the answer at least what began as scientific research soon became a game of cat and mouse. normally scientists have the peace and quiet of their laps to examine data from field studies. the mass death of bees is just one of many prominent experts have been asked to

explain. traditionally science has the role of highlighting natural mechanisms and reaching an explanation for the slightest observable fact. this is how science normally progresses by solving more and more mysteries. and in principle our knowledge of the world we live in increases however this fine principle sometimes has a few hiccups. for scientific observers the case of the vanishing bees is emblematic of this with something like pesticides you should have been able to investigate it by collecting data by fall the way the evidence where it's taking you the crux of the idea is that when we find the evidence that tells us what's happening we tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and we let the chips fall where they may we commit in a way sort of committing to accepting the truth of those findings. but in the case

of the bs that truth took a different course. in the early 2000 and countless official reports pointed to the toxic effect of even very low doses of neo nicotine noids on b. . and yet 20 years on there is no universally accepted truth no consensus on the link between these pesticides and the disappearance of bees what explains that divergence. you need to be a very shrewd observer to see the whole picture of the moment the big problem appeared there was 4 to 5 times more research into causes not linked to pesticides . or natural pathogens like the sema and different viruses. but also bad beekeeping practices climate change the loss of habitat not lighting the asian

hornets and other invasive species like the small beetles i think basically research is much more intensive in causes unlink to pesticides than into pesticides themselves. as is shown with a quick search in a scientific study database. as soon as pesticides were suspected there was a dramatic rise in the number of public and private studies focusing on alternative explanations 2010 the veterinary authorities were confused. and old. age definitely interesting. the more studies there were the less beekeepers could make sense of it all it seemed like a paradox until researchers discovered similarities in an older case lenny you see a flourishing of new studies emerge in any particular area. a little bit ironically it creates the appearance of being dedicated to pursuing the trail but it takes me

directly back to the case of big tobacco we were in the life that i can't. get around to head up. in the 1950 s. tobacco still enjoyed the image of a completely harmless stimulant to blow. the backbone bone of a young but that carefree attitude would not last. as this product contains scientists in december 953 the tobacco industry was in big trouble tracked researchers have found that painting mice with tar from cigarettes caused cancer a revelation that sparked an embittered controversy if. the tobacco companies had a real crisis because they can't contest the evidence and say it's wrong they

just say we don't know and so the winners of all the major cigarette companies got together in new york city. a meeting subsequently took place at new york's plaza hotel between the bosses of the 7 major manufacturers collectively known as big tobacco. imagine the scene. the meeting would go down in the annals of ignorance as a challenge to every one of us and we were all in this together. in light of this threat to business the corporations came up with a plan they want to scare behavior in which they said you know we're aware of the science we think there are problems with it and this is a matter of deep concern to us. now we are beginning a campaign to spell out that basic point so that no one will be able to get it but

he decided to make a public statement pledging aid and assistance to the research effort into all phases of tobacco use and health for this purpose we are stablish ing and joint tobacco industry group the tobacco industry research committee. yet. the press published the declaration bacco industry to start scientific research. believe me friends just feel best for your smoking pleasure and protect every advantage known the modern science just revealed gives you scientific fact. then the class. opening up a center of research on tobacco didn't aim to further the knowledge to produce

knowledge that would disapprove established facts. so they were using scientific methods to refute established science. it's really using science against itself the explicit use of science against science i think does represent a kind of watershed to systematically fund scientific research in order to undermine science effectively fighting fire with fire that's a watershed moment. so after they decided this how did they operationalize one of the things that tobacco companies funded a lot of that's what i call distracting research. the labs backed by the cigarette manufacturers set up research projects known as special projects or s.p.'s and entire arsenal geared to diverting scientific findings. they covered lung cancer in nonsmokers for example looking for links to residents working conditions and

personal habits. they experimented on rabbits to see of lung cancer might be caused by toxins or viruses. as big tobacco generously financed hundreds of studies. some proved useful such as research into the precursors of cardiovascular disease. but other studies bordered on the absurd such as contact with or tomato juice allegedly leading to skin tumors or the link between lung cancer and baldness or even between cancer and the month of birth with march supposedly putting you at greater risk. juliet played goes at the idea is to say there are only kinds of calls if you like was it is to spread ignorance clouding the issue with among teach you to date i just want to. draw. suspicion to other potential culprits is an effective strategy especially as long cancer could be attributed to

a combination of factors identifying a range of risk factors and pursuing multiple avenues of research is perfectly normal in science but it can also be extremely handy for creating confusion. it then becomes almost impossible to determine the true guilty party and that's the point that's extremely well understood and that designed the playbook for pretty much every other science denial that that has all. this is a story about tobacco this is a story about acid rain this is a story about the ozone hole the story about pesticides this is a story that climate change in the kitchen i know is this feel a contraceptive pills i mean we have now seen this strategy used over and over and over again. about buying time the same as oddly it's a winning strategy in the case of tobacco it's 70 years already and it's still

going. in the case of the dying bees scientific insights have likewise been deliberately suppressed. with all that's gone on i'd say we've wasted 20 to 30 years. so we're talking about decades of decision from ation and decades of delay. in the meantime the companies are still raking gobs of money. but eventually a scientific law i constructed over several decades can start to develop cracks.

40 years after the 1st alerts on tobacco a humble employee in the us turned whistleblower and changed everything. a box of documents was sent to the university of san francisco. professor stanton glantz was in for a surprise that day i made 121994 a box of documents landed in my office for an anonymous source these 4 internal documents from at the very highest levels of the tobacco industry their senior scientist their senior lawyers their senior management their senior public relations people talking very very frankly about what they knew about the dangers of smoking. the documents were an unexpected treasure trove for the professor. it was like

a new world stumbling into a new world stage as the leaked documents increased in number the truth broke and the tobacco bosses were cornered gentlemen the reason disclosure of those documents have shaken my confidence that your companies care about the truth these documents suggest fastow manipulation of scientific research by industry attorneys. if these things are true then you should know that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and will not be. faced with damning evidence the corporations were forced to make decades of secret archives public. the collection of words started out a few 1000 pages is now up around $93000000.00 pages. these documents are now kept at the university of san francisco archives they contain the details of a massive manipulation of science the tactics deployed the researchers recruited

and the sums of money involved among the documents was an internal memo from 1969 that summed up the strategy of the tobacco industry. is our product since it is the best means of competing with the body of fact that exists in the mind of the general public there is also the means of establishing a controversy. the key strategy is the creation of doubt about science doubt is a perfect weapon it's effective but also punishes because doubt is legitimately part of science in fact it's an essential driver of science we investigate things because we have questions about them because we're curious or because we doubt the existing explanation is adequate so we need doubt in science would do it the word doctor is key to science we always say science doubts you do there are 2 types of scientists have been established in science where we no longer questioned that the

earth is round or that apples fall at 9.8 meters per 2nd squared galileo measured it we can measure it again but it won't change the results yet but here there is no doubt down to exists in ongoing science in what we have studied in proposing hypotheses so the strategy of doubters about saying that established accepted science is still subject to doubt that we do it so what the tobacco industry did was to take a virtue and turn into a vice. the use of scientific method against science itself and spreading skepticism through dissent from ation. but this massive rebel atory documents in turn inspired a new field of study. how many of you before this week knew something about the history of tobacco most people of the old mia rescues shows her students how to identify the methods used in a story called obstructions of science the discovery of this long history of

deception has led to a new field of intellectual study a new academic field and it's called agni taller g. and that means the study of ignorance. agnes is an unconventional field of study has academics attempt to unravel the mainsprings of our ignorance to look into what we don't know we were laughed at it 1st because people thought it was not academic to study the absence of knowledge to study ignorance but i think people are are laughing a bit less now and starting to be a bit worried because we sense and they realize how pervasive the problem might be . what are the obstacles to knowledge. a question of growing relevance prompting those who study ignorance to find a public voice. over the course of this interview is different ways of

thinking about ignorance and particularly in this phrase tricky taking reigns we're going to ask you to think about example in your own life a strategic. individuals a new understanding of ignorance is a managing until now ignorance mental not knowing what we might know one day thanks to research but now we're beginning to see that you can actively produce. the issue now is identifying obstacles to our knowledge things that help the progress of science deliberately or not. perhaps in some cases it's about what we prefer not to know unraveling all that is no mean feat which is why agnew tala ji the study of ignorance needs to progress methodically and it's a fascinating field of inquiry with contributions from psychology sociology history political science cognitive science computer science network science there are lots

of disciplines involved that can help us understand how ignorance is being manufactured and how we can protect ourselves against. is still in its early days and has a lot of ground to make up that the generation of strategic ignorance is being constantly perfected. and to poking it often means plunging into the details of scientific practice. there's a constant stream of innovations on the market accompanied by have their share of scrutiny are they a threat to our health and more importantly what are safe levels that's the big question the one at the heart of a fierce dispute. one such dispute began in this laboratory one day in 1989 carlos zone in shine and

honest soto are both biologists. for years they had been trying to solve the mystery of cellular proliferation in cancer. suddenly before their very eyes some control cells cultivated in a test tube began to multiply for no discernible reason. it was a real cheryl cole investigation. trying to find out where it came from because that is the 1st you had to do identify what is the source. they reviewed each piece of lab equipment. after 4 months of growing suspense they finally had their culprit . the centrifuge tubes. that. they contained a material that should have been inert but wasn't. the plastic additive in question contained and dispersed

a substance that acted like the hormone estrogen. were very fine we thought that this was a big deal the question now was what other products might contain the substance. toys disposable bottles food packaging and in all the plastics that end up in the environment and what impact does it have on our organism. the big question is establishing the doses to which the public can be exposed without a major risk to our health and that question really is the mother of all battles the impact of product x. on our health is studied by toxicologists the accepted rule is centuries old it's simple and seemingly makes good sense the effect is proportionate to the quantity consume. it's true for sugar and fats and applies to pretty much any product. the golden rule of toxicology says the dose makes the poison which by extension

means that anything below that level isn't a poison. according to this rule a plastic with the characteristics of a hormone that ends up in a baby's mouth shouldn't pose any problem because the quantity of synthetic estrogen ingested is minuscule. true or false this is the crux of the controversy. an experiment was carried out at the university of missouri by research record fred von sol he was the 1st to carry out a controlled experiment on lab animals to try to evaluate the activity of a common plastic called bisphenol a. this as the structure of an estrogenic drug they are using a sex hormone to make plastic this is insane. professor

frederick bansal and his team spent years observing mice exposed to different doses of business being all a to measure traces of the product they explored what happens at the limits of detection using ultra sensitive machines and what they discovered sent shock waves through the scientific community in fact the damage to the reproductive system was occurring at 25000 times below what had been considered a dose that would cause no work that we were absolutely shocked. this was huge for several reasons. the most important being that some of these substances can have bigger effects at tiny doses than with stronger doses. but i mean why is that important because regulates 3 toxicology tests the

harmfulness of these molecules at high doses and never tests or extremely rarely tests the hopefulness of these molecules are the tiny doses to which humans are generally exposed. except that at low doses instead of acting like a typical poison bisbee now a is an end to disrupt or it alters our hormones the molecules that regulate among other things our reproductive system even in the tiniest observable doses it can have devastating effects in other words researchers began to come across some bury unexpected relationships between the dose and the effect of a product and this was shaking up the world of toxicologists we were rejecting their dogma the ecology community have not accepted it and they said we rejected this the resistance among toxicologists was understandable it was

also convenient for the manufacturers of plastics. it's not always that people intentionally want to science. unwittingly through no fault of their own can it be pawns in other people's efforts to pretty strategic. at the same time the plastics industry gives financial backing to alternative studies which its representatives use to defend their simple thesis that low doses cannot be dangerous more than $100.00 independent studies have shown that real life exposure to be created is about a 1000 times below the safe intake limit so i would say one thing industry is saying another and there needed to be explanations of how the difference was occurring eager to understand from solve collected studies published

on the subject and as a true agne tala just he set about explaining the disparity in their conclusions during that time i didn't get a lot of sleep i drank a lot of coffee. is conclusion 93 percent of publicly funded studies indicated harmful effects at very low doses of business being in contrast to none of the studies financed by the industry he eventually discovered the primary reason for this difference instead of an outright lie some creative trickery and the private sector lapse they put a lot of time and effort into figuring out how do we do a study that shows no effect. the 1st step is to find the right test animal model using catalogues of laboratory mice and rats which can be chosen according to their biological parameters. they

can be customized to fit the requirements of the relevant experiments and are then dispatched direct. to the researchers lab. and history groups were using a very strange animal to try to show that bisphenol a cause no harm if you are interested the showing that between early is not journey you would select a no rat in which between only does not become a mr journey champa so you have to be very careful about the mother you choose because you can choose the role model and you can choose their own model because you don't know or you can choose the mother because you know too well how can you do this. test rats tailor made to manipulate the results and prove the innocence of displaying all a. another successful trick by the illusionists of science.

so the most insidious offensives are hidden in the details. research protocols for example that outline the planning of a study and are delicately put in place. it only takes one corrupted protocol or a broken rule to stall scientific progress. what's at stake here is evidence based policy making whether a policy is faced on the best available evidence or where the policy is designed to satisfy a particular industry in their pursuit of profit. the manufacturers of ignorance have a target democratically elected politicians who can decide whether a suspect product is banned or authorized. at the upper new press see what they're said. the moment we give up on the evidence based

policymaking we've given up on democracy. they want less teaching media is only a see saw me. in 2010 the french parliament outlawed the guilty baby bottles but the ban was limited to this one single and a current disruptor present in one single product sold in one single country a small victory 20 years after the 1st alarm bells rang. a serious public health issue therefore continues to be covered up. among the population we're seeing a sharp increase in metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes hormone sensitive cancers neuro behavioral disorders and infertility in this proliferation of symptoms and ukraine disruptors are the prime suspects due to our exposure to them nevertheless the defenders of the plastics industry continue to sow doubt.

the chemical in your body is not as harmful anymore such affirmations are spread on the internet ready. yes if you are saying. the internet is host to a great many organizations with no apparent links to industry that tell us about everything from this being all way and energy sources to the disappearance of bees the climate food supplements animal welfare and fracking. online made to measure science is rampant. and the target on this front is the general public us and our opinions these days we can weigh in with the click of a mouse on everything from pro or anti diesel homeopathy or baiting we click on like we tweet or re tweet this is now public opinion anonymous yet global social networks seem to be the ideal form dissin for mation.

global opinion making is among the issues being monitored inside this building in paris. or was it a complex systems institute brings together mathematicians experts and data specialists. they develop tools to analyze the my. he'd waters of social networks. over 3 months. larry os and his team analyzed 20000000 posts on the climate that originated on twitter before spreading across the globe disappear so who is talking to whom and how do the climate skeptics and their adversaries compete for this virtual space. the team have put together a system that can visualize this sprawling controversy. each dot represents one

person a line between 2 people means that one of them has shared the other's post the more we forward posts the closer the dots get. it is which one of. thanks to the program the dispute over the world's biggest scientific debate becomes apparent we have all the twitter accounts that form the community of climate skeptics you can see that this community is very distinct in terms of sharing the information from the other community made up of those who agree on the climate consensus that's 140000 accounts that's a lot of people. once the debate is rendered observable and you know what can we conclude. on the skeptic side the core is always active these people never stop tweeting there are fewer of them but they're more active which means they're trying to counterbalance the bite exactly that overactive some accounts have 100200000 tweets in 10 years that's incredible so this is how they colonizing twitter it's

crazy. because it's all a core spreading their arguments on an astronomical scale a powerful asset for the climate skeptics and this battle for territory was enough to keep their community alive despite the growing evidence of filmy. for the scientific community global warming is indisputable as is the evident impact of humankind. this consensus however does not impose itself on the web. we see the very regularly scientific facts prove the climate skeptics theories wrong said which is potentially dangerous for this community because they can lose members over it it also there's a kind of inoculates of reaction still good for 2 or 3 days they'll inundate the social networks with alternative facts don't keep their visibility in a globalized environment and suddenly without social networks communities of this

size wouldn't be able to survive the facts which so clearly disprove their beliefs a lot of cornell's. conspiracy theories abound on all manner of scientific subjects with bloggers free to propound their own theories. the corona virus a bio bio engineered virus contains then all particles that can be activated on a time phased arrangement by 5. 1000000000 in the south you know. this image that. they need. they can. fix. it we haven't cured they just don't want to give it out. amid all the rumors and counter rumors some call out a scientific conspiracy and are themselves called out fake news. share this is the . more serious you would you want to be. on social

media it's one side against the other. just. are these online arguments supplanting the patient and meticulous approach of science has it become to each their own truth will make sure you know if i can just. drop it we have gravity that's not a matter of whatever our beliefs we can't ignore reality the victims of climate change. the victims of particulates pollution. or those of infectious diseases where people are no longer vaccinated. they are all a grave reminder that ignoring scientific truths as a human cost in the end the facts do tend to prevail. and despite the hurdles to progress our knowledge increases gradually building up in one way or another through the ages. a few

centuries ago you had to be a mad person to go against common belief and state that the sun and stars don't turn around us but that the earth turns round and round like a spinning top those who champion this inconvenient truth pay dearly in europe the works of copernicus were banned galileo was sentenced to house arrest for life their research posed a threat to established beliefs. another time another setting what makes the world go around today is the economy when the law of the market replaces that of the church what new limits will be imposed on science. will this new confrontation decide which research is accepted. of course there are cases of researchers being caught in a conflict of interests the scientist who ceases to remain objective because

they're influenced by financial backers but the grip of the economy on science far outweighs these individual cases. what impact the market has on a research can only be gauged if we look at the bigger picture. of the current framework within which science is don hugely influences which science we do school for the market economy frame science in a way that the value is incredibly science that can be monetized that is lucrative . researchers have to generate money and to find it and so science has turned into a marketplace where everyone is trying to attract attention. to the. basically computing value out to highlight their specificity is

come up with fashionable keywords. in the early 2000 is the magic word was genomic he said you want to genomes which would vastly influence medicine you will given millions of dollars. to 2000 the research on how to use the word janani in 2010 it was nanotechnology 2020 it's all to official intelligence. i think you're ready let's hope it's still current competition is pointing science in a certain direction that you have created when reading my artificial intelligence. this is too cool i can walk around in the meantime there are a whole host of unknown fields set aside as of kasha. deemed less fashionable or less profitable in the short term. certain scientific fields have

been deserted. some researchers have identified what they call the problem of and done science now that science simply last uninvestigated because there's little commercial imperative in studying it. undone science science that simply isn't done. the experiment never carried out the lab that never opened. the epidemiological study that doesn't exist because it was never financed. the scientific books never written the medical theses never published these are the vast territories of ignorance which we don't explore because they're not profitable because we prefer not to know or because we never even imagined them.

our thirst for knowledge is limitless and our wonder at science unabated. but science is under threat of virus spreading and scientific denial spreading with it could mean $1000.00 is not an issue it's not that we know and it's not an issue for many doctors. as controversies multiply they cloud our understanding. don't close to us who killed us have collaborate there are now scientists beating back the tide of ignorance there are still only a few but for us the general public they are a new force we can count on their developing tools and methods to shed light on ways of protecting a common asset science and it's meticulous progress. and

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