this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
465 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

59602 readers
3755 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

How a false claim about wind turbines killing whales is spinning out of control in coastal Australia::Windfarm critics claim projects will harm marine life. Scientists say that’s not backed by credible evidence

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] youngalfred@lemm.ee 117 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The worst part is it's not just 'they'll kill whales, trust us', it's that they've cited a study in a journal to support their claim - but the journal says they have no record of the study being published or existing in the first place!

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Obviously the deep state is suppressing the truth.

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago

The deep sea state

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

This is literally how q anon got started.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does make you wonder whether someone has cooked the argument up with a language model along the way, and it's just fabricated a citation as they are wont to do.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think I've seen "wont to do" written out until now. Is that the spelling of wont?

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is indeed!

The definition of wont will help anyone who doesn’t understand: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wont

To be clear, this is not the contraction of “will” and “not.”

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Just like my highschool essays!