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Science is a liar...Sometimes, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia

parispaok · 3.4M views · 2013-04-22 · 4:15

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A clip from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 8 in which a character argues that science is a liar and cannot be trusted.

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HN mostly uses it jokingly as a reference for anti-science or trust-your-own-research arguments rather than recommending it.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2015–2021

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smcl · 2021-01 · Criticism

Indeed there would. The naive estimate of deaths is bad enough, the knock on impact is a bit harder to wrap our heads around in terms of magnitude, but would still be severe. Basically - this is not nothing, it’s being treated like a Big Deal because it legitimately is. There’s a lot of talk from the “treatment is worse than the disease” crowd, scant few of whom are experts. And like climate change and evolution deniers many of the arguments seem to boil down to conspiracy theories or the It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia argument - “science is a liar ... sometimes”: [VIDEO]

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swebs · 2019-04 · Joke / meme

He was an ethics professor. I bet a good amount of money that the point he was making pertained to blindly trusting authority rather than doing your own research. Or in other words: [VIDEO]

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byproxy · 2019-01 · Joke / meme

I've just read one ( [LINK] ) and it was less than convincing. In fact, I feel like it's a less-crude version of Mac's argument ( [VIDEO] ).

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