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Trying to label someone without engaging in critical thinking that involves understanding what you memorized is being dishonest to yourself. I will say it agai

by wolco 7y ago

Trying to label someone without engaging in critical thinking that involves understanding what you memorized is being dishonest to yourself. I will say it again. A theory is just a theory.. just the most accepted story. Gravity is a theory (an explaination) of an observable phenonmenon. It is the accepted story until a more compelling story comes around. Some popular theories that were disproven: Fleischmann–Pons’s Nuclear Fusion Phrenology The Blank Slate Luminiferous Aether To your other point. Data is constantly being re-examined. How accurate is the Data is. What the data is really examining are extremely important and change.

hannasanarion 7y ago
Data is re-analyzed in the context of new data and improved hypotheses. Data is not "disproven" as you claimed. There may be several ways to explain an observation, and some of the explanations can be shown to be wrong, but the observation itself never can. After the discovery of standard candles, when the map of the universe was completely reconceptualized, nothing ever changed about astronomical data: observations of stellar position and brightness. What had changed was the explanation for those brightnesses and the meanings attributed to them. The data stays the same, the explanation changes, and if an explanation doesn't match the data, like the milky-way-is-the-universe hypothesis, then it's a bad explanation.
- wolco 7y ago
  What about false reporting?
  - hannasanarion 7y ago
    What about it? Is this you admitting that you were totally wrong about how science works so now you're retreating to the conspiracy theorizing fallback position that all the universities and governments and health authorities and hospitals and nonprofits and NGOs and device manufacturers and biotech companies and nursing homes and cemeteries and obituary sections in newspapers in the entire world are all part of one big conspiracy to keep you from getting a haircut? My 37 year old cousin who is currently in the hospital for coronavirus, you think he was actually abducted by aliens, or what? Is he a "false report" too? What "false reporting"? Please explain to me why we should risk tens of millions of lives worldwide over your sheepish thumb-twiddling musings about "false reporting".

by wolco 7y ago

hannasanarion 7y ago

Data is re-analyzed in the context of new data and improved hypotheses. Data is not "disproven" as you claimed. There may be several ways to explain an observation, and some of the explanations can be shown to be wrong, but the observation itself never can. After the discovery of standard candles, when the map of the universe was completely reconceptualized, nothing ever changed about astronomical data: observations of stellar position and brightness. What had changed was the explanation for those brightnesses and the meanings attributed to them. The data stays the same, the explanation changes, and if an explanation doesn't match the data, like the milky-way-is-the-universe hypothesis, then it's a bad explanation.

wolco 7y ago
What about false reporting?
- hannasanarion 7y ago
  What about it? Is this you admitting that you were totally wrong about how science works so now you're retreating to the conspiracy theorizing fallback position that all the universities and governments and health authorities and hospitals and nonprofits and NGOs and device manufacturers and biotech companies and nursing homes and cemeteries and obituary sections in newspapers in the entire world are all part of one big conspiracy to keep you from getting a haircut? My 37 year old cousin who is currently in the hospital for coronavirus, you think he was actually abducted by aliens, or what? Is he a "false report" too? What "false reporting"? Please explain to me why we should risk tens of millions of lives worldwide over your sheepish thumb-twiddling musings about "false reporting".