[ Arknights ] They're calling it "Critical Phase Transition" because it's critical that you understand that Kal'tsit is trans

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My marxist explanation for the "why" of this is pretty simple: academia has been proletarianized (most of us scientists work for wages!) while journalism, especially opinion journalism, very much has not, and as a consequence elite journalists of the novo-aristocracy see scientists as social lessers

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Anyways, TL;DR elite journalists whose daddies' names are blue on Wikipedia think they are entitled to determine truth and actual scientists are useless academics whose job is to simply be data monkeys producing raw data for their aristocratic perusal

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This weird, toxic relationship between journalism and the sciences has gone from being a perennial annoyance of scientists to, like, actually causing massive problems in society, from journalists fueling the anti-trans and anti-vax panics to journalists downplaying the importance of climate change

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Science journalists will actually get offended when you insist on a particular interpretation of results, because in their addled brains it's THEIR job to interpret them, not "ivory tower academics", despite their total lack of any actual scientific training

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