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RunGoldenRun717 t1_jdvu5i0 wrote

Negative toward science or just towards posts like "Scientists discover link between eating contaminated food and throwing up"?

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MineNo5611 t1_jdwqlyb wrote

There’s definitely a trend where Redditors vehemently disagree with or find the smallest ways to discredit studies that support conclusions they already disagreed with, while they agree without a second thought with conclusions that they already do agree with. There’s a lot of selective attention here. In fact, I’d argue that’s one of the main reoccurring issues I see whenever I find myself on a post on this sub.

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JaiOW2 t1_jdynej5 wrote

It's a near perfect example of confirmation bias and that's actually one of the central kinds of reasoning science challenges and tries to overcome with the hypothetico-deductive mode or more simply, deductive reasoning. I also agree, you can have two studies side by side, with roughly the same degree of validity, but the reaction in the comments can be of different polarities really entirely dependent upon preconceptions.

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daddydoc5 t1_jdwet1c wrote

Which is a fruitful line of research for any number of reasons. Glib comments not withstanding

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NewDad907 t1_jdxc60d wrote

See, when I see a study like that I just assume someone got lazy with their doctoral thesis.

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