Scoobes said:
DonFerrari said:
What are you classifying as social media sites?
Because as far as I know they are the kind of facebook where people aren't even capable of reading a common article.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. There are a lot of different people on these sites.
They each have individuals and groups dedicated to the pursuit of science and discussion of different fields.
On facebook alone there are groups of scientists dedicated to Bioinformatics for Next Gen Sequencing, Biochemical Engineering, there's even a group dedicated to the CRISPR/Cas-9 enzyme. Some of the more popular or mainstream ones would include Brian Cox, Carin Bondar or I Fucking Love Science (IFLS). All the major companies involved in science research also have their own dedicated pages.
On Twitter these sames scientists tweet about their work or comment on the latest advances.
LinkedIn is a bit more obvious as it's a professional networking site but you get the idea.
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Those aren't sites... I though you were talking about something else. So you are basically saying some pages inside the social media, ok.
Have this decree ordered that they can't participate in discussion or that they can't release information by themselves? There is a big difference.
And the place for major scientific discussion are usually universities, companies, simposiuns, etc. Not twitter.
Puppyroach said:
DonFerrari said:
So you are confusing research boycote/censorship with social media use to divulgue it? Yep, not a overreach.
Nope, they are more inefficent because public servers don't hold themselves to a commitment to be profitable, so they accept a lot of pratices that no sane company would.
And democracy in several ways can be seem as the dictatorship of the majority, and that majority very often may be very wrong. At the time Einstein made his discoveries probably 99,99999999% of people would say he was wrong and in a democracy he would have been overuled.
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Of course they should be able to announce findings via social media.
And it should be a given that public departments shouldn't aim to make a profit but rather use the taxpayer money in such a way that cost are kept low putting a lesser demand on taxes.
And no, a democracy can never be a dictatorship since they are each others opposites. Oppression can occur by the masses towards minorities but that has nothing to do with dictatorship. You must separate forms of governing with structures in society.
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Of course why? They don't own the studies neither the agency. The sovereign power of the agency or the government have the autonomy to dictate who can give information or not.
If you are reving profit as a government unit that money flows back and guess what lighten the burden on the taxes. But since that very simple concept escape the thoughs of bureocrats they just want to throw more money on the agencies and not look at how to make it profitable.
Nope, democracy isn't any direct opposite to dictatorship. Go by the greek phylosophers and democracy is a corrupted version of a "all people government" http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/11/29/prominent-greek-thinkers-actually-hated-democracy/ just to help you initiate on it.