• underisk
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    18 hours ago

    the famously rigorous and well tested field of forensic “science”.

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      17 hours ago

      Rofl. OK. So forensics is fake science now, too? Because it could implicate someone you’d rather see go free?

      How is this kind of mental gymnastics any different than the covid deniers.

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        16 hours ago

        a lot of forensics is legitimately junk science that’s been disproven by much better science

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        17 hours ago

        It’s famously subjective. My highschool taught it and showed how you could push any narrative as long as the evidence was gray. It’s almost always gray in these situations.

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        15 hours ago

        tacking the word “science” on to something doesn’t make it scientific. much of it is based off of wild assumptions and “common sense” that was never actually studied or confirmed through testing. its about as scientific as alchemy.