Do a podcast that seeks to separate good science from fake science, and I guarantee you the

science deniers will come out of the woodwork and charge you with crimes against humanity

for not saying that science is fundamentally corrupt and failed.

Some see the self-correcting self-improving nature of the scientific method as a fatal

flaw, while others see it as its central strength.

Science fails are coming right up on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Kevin Hoover from Skeptoid.com.

Science fails.

Ladies and gentlemen, science has failed you. It is misinformed and misled, built up hope

and dashed it, taken your money, and offered in return, noise, nonsense, and deception.

And its demon spawn technology have sold you bad medicine, used citizens as experimental

subjects, crashed spacecraft, created super bugs, helped supervillains and governments to

invade your privacy and steal your wallet, and even sent you out in the rain without an umbrella.

It has made vile weapons available to bad actors, empowering them to commit horrific destruction

on what could be a civilization engulfing scale.

Scientists have been careless, lazy, mercenary, and outright deceptive, plagiarizing papers,

rigging experimental results, thudging findings and faking photos, sometimes conspiring to

bamboozle peers and the public for profit, or just the personal glory of being first.

They've rushed undercooked research into premature announcements, exciting the media with

breakthrough revelations which, long after the claims were retracted, left the public

with woefully wrong-headed and even dangerous ideas.

All this has helped fuel popular doubt about science and driven many to more comforting,

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