Science is a liar...Sometimes, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mostly uses it jokingly as a reference for anti-science or trust-your-own-research arguments rather than recommending it.
What it is
A clip from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 8 in which a character argues that science is a liar and cannot be trusted.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2015 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Critical smcl · 2021-01 · on “London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing”
Indeed there would. The naive estimate of deaths is bad enough, the knock on impact is a bit harder to wrap our heads around in terms of magnitude, but would still be severe. Basically - this is not nothing, it’s being treated like a Big Deal because it legitimately is. There’s a lot of talk from the “treatment is worse than the disease” crowd, scant few of whom are experts. And like climate change and evolution deniers many of the arguments seem to boil down to conspiracy theories or the It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia argument - “science is a liar ... sometimes”: [this video]