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A magnificent rebuttal. People bemoan the "lack of trust in science" -- but any "science" that acts like this is not science at all.
by bjt2n3904 5y ago
A magnificent rebuttal. People bemoan the "lack of trust in science" -- but any "science" that acts like this is not science at all.
- TimTheTinker 5y agoI think a genuine "trust in science" (i.e. in the method alone) manifests itself primarily as a desire to learn about the world first-hand. "Why does this happen?" "Let's make an experiment and see if we can find out!" I'm not just talking about kids. All of us would do well to keep an objective mindset, experiment, and hold opinions lightly enough to change them when the data tells us otherwise. Ironically, this kind of trust also causes us to question the opinions and conclusions of scientists, wanting to replicate their experiments or look at studies with similar subject areas—because it's the method we trust, not the (imperfect) people who are practicing it. On the other hand, people bemoaning a "lack of trust in science" are (perhaps unwittingly) encouraging people to look to scientists like they might have to priests in bygone eras.