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I agree with a caveat, Sometimes I see people take this sort of complexity (there are limits to what we know, science is fallible, there are different interpret
by majos 8y ago
I agree with a caveat, Sometimes I see people take this sort of complexity (there are limits to what we know, science is fallible, there are different interpretations of pretty much everything) and run with it (YouTube conspiracy theories constitute "doing your own research", experts are no better than amateurs and therefore there's no reason to study anything hard). It's kind of a fine balance between going independent too little and too much.
- ianamartin 8y agoI agree this can be a problem. I think the best vaccine against people going too far that direction though is honesty and a deeply understood sense of how we know what we think we know and how we can separate crazy-talk from legitimate possibilities. I guess, what I mean is that it's never to early to talk about epistemology, the scientific method, falsifiability, and the things that guide us down that sometimes narrow path.