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caeli · 3504 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hey Hubski, what are your thoughts on scientific illiteracy?
That's what I originally meant in my post, and I probably am being too over-zealous! I just think it's not okay for people to vehemently believe (& spread to other people) something from a field that they have no familiarity with. If someone's going to be shouting their views when there is plenty of empirical research they haven't read, then I think they need to read that empirical research, at the very least a recent review paper. It seems that often when actual primary research is linked in a comment thread, people insist they're still right or just ignore it altogether.