By the way, here's an example of "bias" at NPR. Not, it's not "hard left" bias that @elonmusk claims, but it's bias. The article is here: npr.org/sections/codes… The bias is to claim that there's some value to non-Western medicine. It's part of the whole critical-theory decolonizing science and other nonsense. But it's factually not true. What the article is citing is some pseudo-science claims from the 1980s about oil from snakes. It's a result that nobody can replicate, where replication and reproducible results are the cornerstone of science. When results are replicatable, in double-blind randomized control trials, then they cease being some sort of alternative medicine and are instead labeled "medicine". The true history of "snake oil" is that it's always been snake oil, from ancient China to the Old West until now. This is not just a claim of white Western colonizer science, it's just the truth.
By the way, here's an example of "bias" at NPR. Not, it's not "hard left" bias that @elonmusk claims, but it's bias. The article is here: npr.org/sections/codes… The bias is to claim that there's some value to non-Western medicine. It's part of the whole critical-theory decolonizing science and other nonsense. But it's factually not true. What the article is citing is some pseudo-science claims from the 1980s about oil from snakes. It's a result that nobody can replicate, where replication and reproducible results are the cornerstone of science. When results are replicatable, in double-blind randomized control trials, then they cease being some sort of alternative medicine and are instead labeled "medicine". The true history of "snake oil" is that it's always been snake oil, from ancient China to the Old West until now. This is not just a claim of white Western colonizer science, it's just the truth.