Neither of those things were backed by science. Confusing convincing lobbying with science is a problem today was it was then.
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SparrowHawk@feddit.it 4 weeks agoBut it does. Cigarettes were healthy and climate change didn’t exist 50 years ago
Leviathan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Antiproton@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
There was never any science saying “cigarettes are healthy”.
dariusj18@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Define healthy. Nicotine is a stimulant and does improve mental acuity.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
I mean those things didn’t change, it was just about how research was manipulated by money and human biases.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
The truth doesn’t change. Scientific consensus does. Scientific consensus has been wrong on countless things. After all, science is about getting things a little less wrong every time.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Exactly.
SparrowHawk@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
Yes but science is a process, not a thing, and that process is corruptible.
There is a differentiation between the natural world for how it’s made and the human process that quantifies that knowledge.
Science has always changed, just like human culture did
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Climate Change has existed for over 110 years in science.
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mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
just the start, too.
scientificamerican.com/…/exxon-knew-about-climate…
…georgetown.edu/…/defense-denial-and-disinformati…
theconversation.com/what-big-oil-knew-about-clima…
motherjones.com/…/desmog-fossil-fuel-industry-cli…