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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Precisely. That's success in the system. In the long run truth will out.
Don't take my word for it. You can see it working. We know more and more, we understand more and more, even just in the last 20 years. Cancer now no longer the terrible death sentence. HIV now no longer the terrible death sentence. Major mental illnesses, now highly treatable. Tremendous progress in surgery, now making dangerous operations routine and cutting hospital stays from weeks into days.
The system you criticize is the same system that produces those results.
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Sorry this is so disjointed, my vaccine-injured child is having a bad day and is being very distracting. 
Here's my problem with this attitude: you have set yourself up to always be right. If there is no evidence of falsehood yet, well clearly it's because science is on the right track. If it turns out there
is evidence of falsehood, well then we found it because the system worked, you're right again!
The system only works because individual people speak up when they see falsehoods being perpetrated. It works in cases like these because of people like me, not because of people like you. The system will cease to work if I just sit back quietly and wait for it to magically work on its own.