• Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    They were asked these questions by journalists and they answered. Don’t blame scientists for idiot media people.

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      3 days ago

      Scientists can be absolutely the biggest idiots. I worked maintenance in a laboratory and sometimes I was impressed somebody who can genotype plankton could also tie their own shoes.

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        3 days ago

        Sure, I never claimed the opposite :) I just think in this case, the one to blame is whoever came up with the idea for this article, not the people who were asked questions.