We can still trust the scientific method
though of course not politicians, industry nor the media
Well evidenced research, for example, showing that the UK needs to reduce its consumption of animal products by 30% to met Paris emissions targets (researchers knew that advising the actual reduction required of 70% would be rejected out of hand) is being rejected out of hand by Sunak, who says he’s not gonna tell anyone to cut down because there are a lot of beef and lamb producers in his constituency and he wants to be re-elected.
Sunak and Truss also thought it was fun to save £100,000s by cancelling water inspections and allowing animal farmers to self-regulate the sewage they allow to run off into rivers. Guess how effective this was when the river Axe was tested? 95% had not complied with slurry storage regs and 49% were polluting the river. If citizens poison waterways they’re arrested; industry (like a racist Tory or Labour donors) get given a free passes.
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Is it not perhaps more accurate to say "we could trust the science if the scientific method, and not the funding bias, was what controlled outcomes" ?
I have a hard time trusting science when it is manipulated by the ones that fund the scientists. It should not be that way but it is. These days you have to question everything, at least in the so called "West".