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If you dismiss government funded science and industry funded science as both being conflicted there is not much left.

> "a lot of it such "science" is used to justify increasing govt power." Is this really true, or does the science suggest actionable outcomes that you are confusing with power. I suppose the scientists could just say do nothing, but with so much to learn that would seem very regressive.

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Why would you dismiss either? Accepting an argument as being produced solely for the purpose of advancing the agendas of the people financing that argument isn't a reason to dismiss any argument that is not statistical in nature.

Statistical arguments, however, are sensitive to the suppression of negative results, fuzzy classification schemes, and p-hacking.

> If you dismiss government funded science and industry funded science as both being conflicted there is not much left.

With good science, one can anonymize the authorship and still have something useful to work with. I want to eliminate argument ad hominem, not pick a better ad hominem.

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