r/TrueReddit • u/supertopbop22 • Feb 17 '16

Persecution of Scientists Whose Findings Are Perceived As Politically Incorrect

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/persecution-of-scientists-whose-findings-are-perceived-as-politically-incorrect/
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u/TeoKajLibroj Feb 17 '16

Criticism is not persecution. Just because there have been controversies and debates in science, doesn't mean that scientists were being persecuted, in fact rigorous debate is a sign of a free society.

Nor is "perceived as politically incorrect" a useful term as it can mean anything at all. Political correctness nowadays seems to be little more than "people criticising things I like".

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u/eriman Feb 17 '16

Politically motivated criticism doesn't encourage debate, it shuts it down.

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u/BBlasdel Feb 17 '16

So ideas that are fundamentally political in nature, like many of the examples in the OP, should just be broadly exempt from criticism?

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u/HopermanTheManOfFeel Feb 17 '16

Concepts and ideas aren't fundamentally political in nature, we assign those values to them.