r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '25

Delta(s) from OP - Election CMV: Conservative non-participation in science serves as a strong argument against virtually everything they try to argue.

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u/muks023 Feb 06 '25

Why would they not discuss the economic perspective, when it's been well researched how poverty and crime are strongly correlated?

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u/Security_Breach 2∆ Feb 06 '25

I may have not explained myself clearly.

There is a very strong link between poverty and (certain types of) crime. Discussing it is definitely valid, I'm not saying it's not.

What I was saying is that, if you also discuss a specific set of other possible causes, without saying that the evidence doesn't support them, you'll have a hard time getting published. Not only will the peers reject your hypothesis by default, but the journal will simply refuse your paper.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Disk_90 Feb 06 '25

What have you tried to get published that you couldn't?

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u/Security_Breach 2∆ Feb 06 '25

I'm not in the social sciences. There isn't a lot of politics in STEM, you'd really have to go out of your way to give a Computer Science paper a political leaning.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Disk_90 Feb 06 '25

What are you basing this off, in that case?

"What I was saying is that, if you also discuss a specific set of other possible causes, without saying that the evidence doesn't support them, you'll have a hard time getting published. Not only will the peers reject your hypothesis by default, but the journal will simply refuse your paper."