fafferlicious

No, your perspective is how we get climate science denial and vaccine skepticism and removal of fluoride from drinking water.

People with no subject matter experience or practical knowledge of what “Science” actually is.

I said trust scientists. Not a scientist. Scientists. Plural. Trust the literature reviews and meta analyses of multiple studies. Trust the scientists that have amassed DECADES of knowledge of an incredibly small and specialized area of interest.

Instead, we get schmucks all up and down shitting on whatever study they want. The number of times I’ve seen papers dismissed simply on the population size alone for being “poor statistical power” without any discussion on effective and whether the study was actually appropriately powered or not.

I bet you don’t even really know what the drivers are for the reproducibility crisis and where real problems are.

Scientists. Scientists are to say it’s not having an impact on selection.

I can guarantee you they’ve asked that already, and researched the topic extensively.

Look, scientists are (semi) normal people with a wickedly intense interest. If someone is willing to devote 5+ years learning about how to study bird behavior to get their doctorate, do you think they’re not going to be concerned about the bird’s well being? When the entire point of the research and study of endangered species is conservation?