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In my experience, this also happens a lot with "hard science" too, and a charge against various investigations in soft science and philosophy are led by certain
by claudiawerner 8y ago
In my experience, this also happens a lot with "hard science" too, and a charge against various investigations in soft science and philosophy are led by certain "appeals to authority" themselves - including and not limited to unquestioned positivism, the unsubstantiated belief in objectivity in science etc. And these are as ideological as any other "soft science" defender - only more pernicious, since such views are rarely admitted to be ideological in themselves.
- xkcd-sucks 8y agoScience is as much predicated in faith as any religion. (Faith that people correctly report the "truth", etc.). The congregations of, let's say, Newtonian physics may be pretty skeptical, as they can examine claims by throwing a ball around, but most modern "hard" science takes place on scales too small or large for any person to observe. That takes a lot of faith in instrumentation and models.
- leereeves 8y agoThe fact that your computer works is proof that our theories about very small scales are extremely accurate. You only have to depend on faith if you don't understand the math.