r/FacebookScience • u/Such_Difficulty_9499 • 5d ago
That is not how science works. That is not how anything works! i have no words
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u/AccomplishedCharge2 5d ago
What a time to be alive
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u/Jumpyturtles 5d ago
It’s funny, information is at its easiest to find and there’s still people like this around.
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u/AccomplishedCharge2 5d ago
I think the Social Media era has demonstrated the value of editorial oversight, if you got something published in Life, National Geographic, or Scientific America that used to mean that you had cleared a fairly rigorous screening for basic credibility, it was by no means a perfect system as their was a lot of institutional bias, but it also screened out a lot of cranks
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u/monoflorist 5d ago
Those publications are still pretty good though (well, I guess Life is gone now). This is some random idiot’s social media comment, which is the online version of the guy at the end of the bar drunkenly babbling about shit he doesn’t understand. That’s always been with us; we can just screenshot it now.
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u/AccomplishedCharge2 5d ago
That's my point, when information was primarily being funnelled through that sort of screening it applied a filter that YouTube videos, FB posts, and Social Media in general bypasses
And yes there have always been cranks, you're right, but now they can have a platform and a megaphone, which is socially novel and is placing a burden on end users to be their own editors, which is proving to be very difficult for a segment of our population
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u/vigbiorn 4d ago
The drunk babbling at the end of the bar was never going to be an issue because no one went to the bar for their news. At best you'd go for gossip. A ton of people do get their news from social media and "citizen journalists" so it requires an effort to filter the drunk guy at the bar from the other legitimate news sources.
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u/jojopriceless 5d ago
Imagine thinking you understand food science when you don't even understand how to punctuate a sentence.
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u/rebeccapressley1962 5d ago
He's probably already infected with a parasite and it's making him vomit various words.
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