I get anti-science vibes from this and I hate it. Oversimplifying the scientific process and highlighting the worst parts without explaining what these sacrifices and contributions work towards.
We live on a vast mountain of skulls and sorrow and pain and suffering to have a world where you can drive for 5 - 30 minutes in any direction and get antibiotics and fever reducing medication, where we can work on a chair all day and earn enough to go to a grocery store and buy food that you know won’t kill you or give your kids dysentery.
We do better honoring these sacrifices than whinge that science isn’t giving back enough for its cost. You owe ALL your comforts to this process that is largely misunderstood or even actively attacked. It makes no sense to me.
If you want to advocate for newer forms of scientific research that don’t rely on things like chemical exposure or animal testing, that’s fine, lets do that. Let’s not throw away the scientific process just because you don’t fucking understand it.
Dicska@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe it’s just me, but inconclusive results are still results, and get you a tiny step closer to the solution by redirecting you in a different direction.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
What if they results was “vacuum chamber got sprayed with media when I left the lid loose again” and “glassware that is sealed and put into the autoclave once again shatters”?
Dadifer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
🤣🤣 The process is going to have inefficiencies
cenzorrll@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
“Decontaminated vacuum chamber to prevent future false positives”
“Glassware temperature limits tested and confirmed”
X@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
We live in an inherently lossy universe. We can do our best, but entropy comes for us all.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
“Successfully replicated the findings of Miller, et al, 1962 that dropping the test tube on the way to the spectroscopy machine makes the custodial staff annoyed with you”
Solving the replication crisis, one untied shoelace at a time!
Liz@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Denovo Techniques in Waste Generation and Cost Overruns: A Look Into the Walrus-Dragon Lab Methodology
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
“I forgot to add the sample and lyophilized pure water for 40 hours.”
“Someone deviated from the SOP while doing dishes and now there is unidentified black material in my sample.”
“I accidentally dropped and broke a vial, losing several weeks worth of work done by myself and others. Recovery and repurification was not possible.”
“My boss changed their mind partway through the study, so it was abandoned.”