Pursuit of truth for truth's sake !== The appearance of the pursuit of truth to boost reputation

Perhaps there's an incentive for manufacturers to detail how they're exploiting customers but I'm not aware of it - perhaps one day when openness is valued above profit-resulting-from-obscurity?

I suppose if, instead of issuing free-floating (essentially-)PDF contracts, manufacturers registered their contract terms with a system of some sort (trying to avoid the old-think 'centralised' but some system which is universally reachable) in a common language, it could be data-mined by anyone to extract new insights.

Until this connection is broken, science will be flawed and untrustworthy and sadly deliver on its potential.

People's reputation dot dot dot the survivability of their genes depends on their body of work yes?

Its not clear that everyone playing the game of science can overpower their instinct to win by any means necessary, in service of the purity of the scientific method.

Just look at certain people who've thrust themselves into power by corrupt means to see what I mean.

People don't like having cameras streaming from their bedrooms and livingrooms. I'm shocked.

I'd go further, and add that the better the scientist's contradicting evidence the more academia would be happy to have him (*).

In principle.

(*) or her

Your belief is shared by a lot of my republican-voting family members. I'm skeptical this belief is warranted. I never in my wildest dreams thought it possible the unprecedented and permanent changes Trump has made to the character of the institutions of American government over the last 11 months.

Until now presidents respected and upheld the idea that executive institutions were loyal to the constitution and the country and the president's job was to enact policies that would guide them, and make sure Congress' laws were followed. Civil servants would do their best to make these policies a reality, with the constitution being the guiding light. The president never had power to fire mere bureaucrats just because he didn't like them personally---in fact the idea that a president would have a personal interest in any civil servants was absurd. This led to stable institutions that allowed for peaceful transfer of power and made the US very powerful, even if it sometimes seemed schizophrenic to the outside world. This was admired and envied around the world.

Now it's different. These institutions are completely partisan now. They no longer serve the country, but serve the president personally. Can you imagine they will allow a peaceful transition of power and serve the new president as they have the current one? A Democrat would have to completely fire absolutely everyone every time he got in office. We've already seen the chaos this has caused. Imagine every president doing this when he first gets in? What a disaster! And add to that the inevitable temptation to ever increase presidential power. They will do so to "get things done and back to normal."

These are watershed events that we're witnessing play out, and unfortunately just as permanent as brexit.

Unfortunately this lesson is continually lost on many who push for separation and sovereignty of various kinds. For example those calling for western separation in Canada. Canada as a whole is already a very tiny market with minimal world bargaining power. Yet these geniuses think that a small subset of Canada would somehow have more clout in the world than all of Canada does. Because freedom and oil or something. They are completely delusional. Possibly they think they would join the US which is entirely possible, but even that will come at great personal expense. A Faustian bargain if there ever was one. Ironically some of the people who stand to lose the most, such as farmers, tend to be the most supportive of such an idea. The lessons of Brexit are plain to see, but very few see much these days.

So you're agreeing with this:

A study that suggests its not going to be that bad will be immediately questioned along with the credentials and bias of the researcher.

ProTip: you are, as you said the same thing in a different way.

Consume consume consume until they've enough to build their own rocket and escape before the asteroid arrives.

I'm confused on where the problem lies.

It all transactions happened in full view, perhaps there'd be at least the opportunity to understand why things happen or don't happen the way they do.

Force auto companies to immediately stop producing ICE vehicles because every one of them is going to produce emissions

Is it just me who thought you were suggesting to stop producing vehicles for the modern-day tiny-brain-tiny-penis-big-muscles-and-gun variant of the Gestapo who kidnap, imprison and maybe later deport hard workers based solely on something they had no control over - their birth place?

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you are all baked cows, crispy cows, bigly burgers, say "moo sizzle sizzle moo, I'm a cow, moo moo".

Say it human!!! MOOO! U B burgers, mooburgers! Bakey Jerky

...said a humanoid-robot representative for ClosedAI whilst discussing the company's next steps on 'Good Morning Earth'... this morning.

But doing things the stupidest, laziest and most corrupt way possible is a bit of a pattern with us.

FTFY

The simple reality is we can't stop global warming without putting the burden on some people

I wouldn't worry about it - once Israel has finally managed to trigger the next world war, we'll have other things to worry about like where to watch Netflix when the world's infrastructure has been switched off by China.