Comment Re:Stop being such a drama queen. (Score 2) 158
such as people who clearly don't understand basic science drawing conclusions from unfiltered scientific data.
Those people come to their predetermined conclusions with or without the the raw data, but removing restrictions on distribution of data does help real researchers.
Or statistics? How many people are easily manipulated by presentations of statistics that they don't even understand?
Again those presenters would be manipulating opinion with or without openly available data.The fact that the statistics are openly available is the only chance people have to prove them wrong.
So neither of the examples of negative aspects are actually negative. At best the open information gives other groups the opportunity to debunk the lies and correct public knowledge, at worst people will ignore the facts for the opinions they prefer which is no worse than before the facts were available.