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> How Americans Came to Distrust Science It's the internet. Anything before is historically interestingly but now meaningless. Pre-internet I'd passively wat
by aaron695 6y ago
> How Americans Came to Distrust Science
It's the internet.
Anything before is historically interestingly but now meaningless.
Pre-internet I'd passively watch science shows on physics and lap String Theory up.
Now I can hear the dissenting voices and see how the String Theorists don't address the simple issues raised.
Science is dead to me and I don't think it should be revived. I think we need something better. Science doesn't have to be the best way forward. There are alternative frameworks to science.
- pjkundert 6y agoPerhaps you misunderstand the word "science". The proposal of testable hypotheses, rejected if the tests fail? How is that "dead to you"? Is there some reality in which you can continue to successfully live a life based on beliefs that are invalidated by failed tests? A reality in which "science is dead"? There does seem to be a weird societal belief growing in something other than evidence-based reality. Let us know how it works out for you all, in a couple generations. Personally, I remain ... unconvinced.