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 by 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 every new press see or sit through. the moment we give up on evidence based policymaking

we've given up on democracy. hold a lot less each. 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 a current disruptors are the prime suspects due to our exposure to them nevertheless the defenders of the plastics industry continue to sow doubt.

the presence of a 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 targets 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 babying 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 for dissent from ation.

global opinion making as among the issues being monitored inside this building in paris. since i was in the complex systems institute brings together mathematicians i.t. experts and data specialists. they develop tools to analyze the my. waters of social networks. over 3 months of each other larry os and his teams analyzed $20000000.00 posts on the climate that originated on twitter before spreading across the globe this year so who is talking to whom and how did the climate skeptics and their adversaries compete for this virtual space. the team have put together a system that can visualize this sprawling controversy another year was ignoring

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. to this one of the children who do clues 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 or 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 bait exactly that overactive. some accounts have 100200000 tweets in 10 years that's incredible so this is how they colonizing twitter it's

crazy. a solid core spreading their arguments on an astronomical scale a powerful asset for the climate skeptics in this battle for territory enough to keep their community alive despite the growing evidence before me. 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 there is wrong side 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. without social networks communities of this size wouldn't

be able to survive the facts which so clearly disprove their beliefs that of course those. conspiracy theories abound on all manner of scientific subjects with bloggers free to propound their own theories. the coronavirus a bio bioengineered virus contains nano particles that can be activated on a time basis to range with $55.00. 1000000000 in the south you know. this image the name of a political. bond they need they can get the easy reclaim the fake alter the many thing and we have a cure 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. forcing you to do a one. on social media it's one side against the other.

are these online arguments supplanting the patient and meticulous approach of science has it become to each their own truth will measure you know if i could just . drop it we have a 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 outweighs these individual cases. what impact the market has on research can only be gauged if we look at the bigger picture. of the current framework within which science is done hugely influences which science we did the market economy frame science in a way that. is science that can be monetized that is lucrative. researchers have to generate money and to find it and so science is turned into a marketplace where everyone is trying to attract attention. to. basically competing values have to highlight their specificity is really in

come up with fashionable keywords. in the early 2000 is the magic word genomic he said you want to genomes which would vastly influence medicine you were given millions of dollars. in 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 that will be soon current competition is pointing science in a certain direction that you have created a memory of my artificial intelligence this is too cool i can walk away and in the meantime there are a whole host of unknown fields set aside as of caution i. 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. through.

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 folks and it's not an issue for many doctors pig who has controversies multiply they cloud our understanding. good week i don't come up to guess who killed you out of coed but 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 its meticulous progress. here

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