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Should we be sceptical of science?
- teilo 16y agoThe conclusion: "Happily, there is another way out of the impasse between fallible science and even-more-fallible non-science. The contest is not a zero-sum game: the shortcomings of science do not make it rational to believe cranks instead. It’s a fair bet that many of today’s scientific beliefs are wrong, but only your grandchildren will know which ones, and in the meantime, science is the only game in town. Or, as Hilaire Belloc put it, in a rather different context: ...always keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse."
- miles 16y agoSaw this story on The Browser (thebrowser.com) and loved the blurb: "Science prides itself on making progress by falsifying past theories. So why do scientists keep on insisting that they are right, when history may very well prove them wrong?"