Yeah, but users on reddit don’t read sources, and that gets people frustrated and bored. Especially on /science or /askscience. Those subs are shitholes.
God I fucking hated ask science. It was a giant feed of garbage pseudoscience that was almost nothing but “NEW CURE FOR CANCER” or “WEED IS AWESOME”. Almost every single post and article was bull, or had extremely poor research. I remember seeing some sexist claim and it turns out the study only had 4 male and 4 female participants. The researchers acted as though the claim, and evidence, were definitive, so it was posted everywhere because of the headline.
Well, they could just have posted sources to their claims instead of just playing the self-authority card the whole time.
Yeah, but users on reddit don’t read sources, and that gets people frustrated and bored. Especially on /science or /askscience. Those subs are shitholes.
God I fucking hated ask science. It was a giant feed of garbage pseudoscience that was almost nothing but “NEW CURE FOR CANCER” or “WEED IS AWESOME”. Almost every single post and article was bull, or had extremely poor research. I remember seeing some sexist claim and it turns out the study only had 4 male and 4 female participants. The researchers acted as though the claim, and evidence, were definitive, so it was posted everywhere because of the headline.
This is why we can’t have nice things
I agree but would like to point out that I have not seen higher quality content on the science-oriented sites on lemmy either.