• UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Upper age restriction

    And what happens when medical science increases life expectancy? U would have to amend the constitution to pass this. Think of how nightmarish it is to do this. Now think of amending this AGAIN when life expectancy increases every year.

    Does not lie about well known facts from scientist, like Covid-19.

    Who decides what “well known facts” are? A particular non-political committee? The supreme court was supposed to be this committee. It clearly became political quickly…

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      5 months ago

      And what happens when medical science increases life expectancy?

      Make the upper age limit be average life expectancy minus X years. This has the added bonus of motivating politicians to actually try to increase average life expectancy.

      Who decides what “well known facts” are?

      The scientific community, and certainly not the Supreme Court. Not sure how you came to that conclusion.

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        5 months ago

        The scientific community, and certainly not the Supreme Court.

        Because there are different “scientific communities” - some of them rogue and stupid. I’m not the poster you were responding to, but I would assume that the arbiter of your hypothetical of which scientific communities would be valid would go to the Supreme Court.

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          5 months ago

          No. The scientific community polices* itself with peer review. The rogue and stupid communities are peer reviewed out of existence. You can submit all the falsified “research” you want, but if your published results can’t be replicated, you will be labeled a quack and your “findings” will go ignored by the rest of the scientific community.

          No government-affiliated judicial body is involved in verifying science, because judges are experts in law, not science.

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            5 months ago

            Do you know how long it takes to replicate another’s studies? Sometimes that never happens.

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              5 months ago

              Are you suggesting that the United States Supreme Court weighs in on scientific studies that haven’t been replicated yet?

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                5 months ago

                No, I’m still commenting about Mio’s suggestion upthread, that “not lying about science” is a terrible #5 criterion for president.