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> All of this nonsense is because scientists lost their moral standing by cheating, lying and going full woke

So Ozempic is just propaganda then? MRNA vaccines too? CRISPR? CAR-Ts? LLMs? EV Batteries? Nike Alpha Flys? Superconductors?

Hate to break it to you, but we are in a golden age of science especially in Biotech.

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I believe that they're implying is that some have lost track of what the scientific method actually dictates and allows. For example, it's no longer permissible to ask questions about certain things, and that if you do ask questions you risk being cancelled.

Yes, there has been breakthrough technologies. But Science - upper case S intentional - has also had breakdowns.

> For example, it's no longer permissible to ask questions about certain things, and that if you do ask questions you risk being cancelled.

And you believe this is a new thing? Since when? After Galileo, certainly.

New? No. But the blatant canceling in a mass scale gaslighting sorta way *is* new.

And I'm only try to explain that other comment, not condone it or condem it.

Ozempic is definitely not just propaganda -- there's good research and outcomes to back it's effects.

There HAVE been some questions as to how it works (and that the traditional understanding might be wrong), but...

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