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Originally Posted by RobertG
This may be how politics works, but it is not how science works. As an example take the "debates" over whether vaccines cause autism. Even though the science shows the that there is no link, the media will, or used to, find someone to support the other side. The presence of an opposing viewpoint does not affect an argument's veracity.
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While I definitely agree with the anecdote you provided, there is a good deal of debate in science. That's the whole point of peer-reviews. And very rarely is one side of the peer-review journal debates is 100% correct and the other side 100% incorrect.