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It’s a little bit ridiculous to hear that scientists are now so often acting as politicians and clergy, as in, defending their ideas as ‘proven’. A scientific t
by jl2718 7y ago
It’s a little bit ridiculous to hear that scientists are now so often acting as politicians and clergy, as in, defending their ideas as ‘proven’. A scientific theory is tautologically impossible to prove. It can only be disproven, and scientists should be trying to disprove theories rather than advocating for them.
- throwaway2048 7y agoThere is nothing wrong with defending valid science against discredited, unsubstantiated, repeatedly debunked crap. Accepting their points as valid and not disputing them just leads to the perception there are two equally valid opinions about the topic, when one of them is fringe and makes bad arguments. We do ourselves no favors by that sort of attitude being common and accepted.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoDisproving requires discarding non-sensical counterarguments though. You don’t find a strong counterexemplar by believing every bad thing anyone says about the exemplar.