critical rationalists encountering literally anyone making a scientific claim

this reads like satire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJJ7UldMc8

many people choose other lines, and their decisions are equally as arbitrary as someone who draws the line at sentience.

it is arbitrary, since you can choose to draw the line in many places.

what I mean is it’s an arbitrary line to draw. you might choose to draw the line at living things, or terrestrial life, or terrestrial and ocean life. but, arbitrarily, some people choose to draw the line at sentience. the vegan society definition arbitrarily draws the line at animal life.

sentience is arbitrary, too.

of course it’s not. Meta analyzes fly in the face of the guidance for LCAs. it’s just not good science.

since I’m already being tasked to address this again, it’s worth pointing out that poore and nemecek didn’t even gather the LCA data themselves. they, themselves, actually cite other meta-analyzes of LCA data. those meta-analyzes do recognize that they are violating best practices in the text themselves, and just go ahead and do it anyway. egregiously, poore and nemecek Don’t even acknowledge this faux pas and pass off their “findings” as sound investigation.

they combine disparately methodized LCA data. this is explicitly against good practice. the fact that they found outrageous disparities got them great headlines and impressive graphs, but the underlying science is questionable at best. I could go deeper but this is the thousand foot view.

this is poore-nemecek 2018. it is not good science.

what in the boomer book is this doing on lemmy

your not countering them, you’re just being mean.

objectively, it is a veterinary procedure. that’s the reality.

now who is putting words in others’ mouths?

i haven’t supported any opinions at all.

I haven’t said they’re lesser. I don’t think they did either, but it’s possible I missed it.

Artificial insemination is not a veterinary procedure

it is. denying it doesn’t change reality.

you’re just doubling down. try some selfcrit

Theunknownmuncher said that I trivialize the experience of human rape victims.

i think it’s reasonable to say that when you compare a veterinary procedure to rape.

You made a personal attack when you put words in my mouth

no, they didn’t.