Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-223 hours agoIf we silenced all the sources of misinformation/disinformation people would be aghast at how quiet it is.message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1220arrow-down18
arrow-up1212arrow-down1message-squareIf we silenced all the sources of misinformation/disinformation people would be aghast at how quiet it is.Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-223 hours agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down4·23 hours agoIt depends on how you classify misinformation/ disinformation… Scientific disinformation could just be stuff that has been disproven…
minus-squaresturlabragason@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·22 hours agoYou know damn well what misinformation he’s talking about! Stop feeding us misinformation!
minus-squarePeripheralGhost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·23 hours agoOr things yet to be disproven
minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·15 hours agoScience has an unintuitive philosophical system, it is actually impossible (or just not feasible) to “disprove” a lot of things absolutely 100%. Best you can do is prove something, or fail to prove something. And it does make some sense, there’s uncertainty in measurements, there’s some probability and statistics involved. Proving there are NOT aliens out there would require checking every inch of every planet for life, remains, or fossils.
minus-squareClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-223 hours agoWe talking flat earth? Vax deniers? Are you disagreeing?
It depends on how you classify misinformation/ disinformation… Scientific disinformation could just be stuff that has been disproven…
You know damn well what misinformation he’s talking about! Stop feeding us misinformation!
Or things yet to be disproven
Science has an unintuitive philosophical system, it is actually impossible (or just not feasible) to “disprove” a lot of things absolutely 100%.
Best you can do is prove something, or fail to prove something.
And it does make some sense, there’s uncertainty in measurements, there’s some probability and statistics involved.
Proving there are NOT aliens out there would require checking every inch of every planet for life, remains, or fossils.
We talking flat earth? Vax deniers? Are you disagreeing?