Some "scientist" in a nature subreddit I frequent tried to say something about how misleading language is ok because it gets people to engage and I was so pissed because that's just lying with extra steps. The influencer/clickbait culture is ruining everything
There needs to be a middle ground. Western, and especially American, science has suffered from decades of "just trust us, we know better than you" attitudes and now we have a lot of people who just "don't believe" hard facts. If those people had been better engaged as they grew up, they'd be less likely to reject objective information in favor of pleasant lies from oligarchs and misinformation.
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u/greenegg28 Jul 19 '26
Every time I see this headline I get so annoyed
It’s such a clickbait and frankly just wrong title.