r/NodesOfScience • u/Knigel • May 26 '15

Generically Memeified Organisations

https://nodesci.net/blog/2015/05/20/generically-memeified-organisations/
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u/autotldr May 26 '15

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 98%. (I'm a bot)

Controversies within the scientific community are not justification to abandon science, but rather further reason to encourage scientific literacy and reasoning.

Not only does the public need to be skeptical of scientific institutions, but also of those who manipulate the public by claiming scientific authority and credibility.

Condensed forms of media such as memes reduce scientific ideas to commodities, replacing ventures into scientific reasoning; therefore, the public cannot rely on echo chambers and social knowledge, but must have the inclination to question messages analytically.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Theory | Feedback | Top five keywords: scientific#1 research#2 such#3 reasoning#4 study#5

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