Unpopular Opinion
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1. NO POLITICS
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
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This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
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I’d rephrase this… trust scientific medicine, but don’t necessarily trust all doctors. Doctors are human and don’t know everything. But, usually the answer exists or can be found through scientific medicine.
I recently was diagnosed with a somewhat rare disease and it took me a long time to get to a doctor that knew what they were talking about. Until I found them, I’d wait for months to see a specialist and then realize I had learned a lot more than they knew about my particular condition just from reading patient forums and medical papers while I waited.
lol um...
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/eemcs/scientific-study-exposes-publication-fraud-involving-widespread-use-of-ai
Okay, I think we knew that part. The fact that people know it and use AI to abuse the shitty publications shouldn’t be a surprise. This article basically says “if you see an article without citations, it’s likely AI”. Cool.
For the record, real science includes citations. I work in a field roughly tangential to this and you’d be shocked at the man hours that go into citations. Only crap articles would skip that.