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Comment by sillysaurusx

The truth has a habit of shining through if you are encouraged to keep asking questions and follow up on them.

The point is that people are actively discouraged from asking questions and following up on them. People lose their careers and livelihoods for asking the wrong sorts of questions.

Truth is no barrier to social backlash. In fact, questions that might be true tend to be the ones that get people the most heated. https://twitter.com/a_centrism/status/1211170458902487042

(I have no stance either way regarding that account, but it's an interesting phenomenon that someone has to basically shroud themselves in anonymity to present certain flavors of scientific research.)

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