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1. Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 19:29:33 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

   • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
   • mike805
   • Luis M. Rocha
   @freemo @lmrocha @mike805 the publishing quality has been questioned publicly more than once too. There is an integrity problem in the scientific publishing community. There is also a repeatability problem that some have even gone so far as to say is a crisis.
   
   At the end of the day to me the debate is whether or not any human has more rights than another. It seems like equality is a value many people claim to share, but disarming people because they aren't in the right category argues a different belief set. Everyone has the right to self defense, and that means giving everyone the opportunity to tip the scales in their favor. Sadly criminals abuse that right and by doing so disaffect others of their natural rights. This is when the law should step in. Limiting legal access to firearms only makes it harder for otherwise law abiding citizens to obtain equal or higher footing with criminals.
   • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 19:37:11 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • mike805
     • Luis M. Rocha

     @thatguyoverthere

     Those issues, while valid, arent really the main issue here...

     When there is a study that says something like "more access to guns means more suicide by guns"... the paper IS correct, peer review was successful and the paper does address that question.

     The issue is it isnt even remotely addressing the question that is actually relevant of "does access to guns increase/reduce overall violence rates". Papers are designed to answer individual poitns of facts and the peer review process is designed to make sure the math and steps taken are correct... peer review does **not** mean "scientists agree guns are bad", to draw that conclusion you have to use your own brain and be capable enough and understand the topic enough to be able to make the inference from the body of studies to an actual conclusion.

     @mike805 @lmrocha

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