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Here's the problem: 1. Science is a process. If you've ever seen the typical graph explaining the scientific method it's important to note that it's a loop. Sc
by cletus 5y ago
Here's the problem:
1. Science is a process. If you've ever seen the typical graph explaining the scientific method it's important to note that it's a loop. Science is iterative;
2. I'm not sure I agree with the characterization of falsifiability here as making predictions that can be proven wrong. The essence of scientific theory is to make testable predictions, that is the theory can be used to make predictions that can be experimentally tested. Scientific theories are never proven right per se, at least not without making assumptions. They simply become accepted given enough of a track record of testable predictions and continued failure to find a counterexample;
3. By (2), creationism clearly isn't science. It makes no testable predictions. Efforts to conflate creationism as science continue the long losing trend of religion pitting itself against science (eg Capernicus, Galileo) and it's not science;
4. There are an awful lot of people who don't understand or have no interest in understanding that science is a process and are merely looking for confirmation of what they already believe. These people tend to reject anything that contradicts their world view;
5. In the US in particular, there is a long history of anti-intellectualism that's deeply tied to religion; and
6. Ironically, the people who reject accepted science are typically the most easily manipulated by religious dogma, jingoism or the like; and
7. There are people who are quite willing to manipulate others for financial gain and/or power. It's why every living president, all but ~3 Senators, all but a handful of Congresspeople, all governors and the likes of Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are all vaccinated but continue to fan the flames of anti-vaxxers for their own gain.
- iammisc 5y ago> Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are all vaccinated but continue to fan the flames of anti-vaxxers for their own gain. Sean Hannity has continuously supported vaccines (has unequivocally stated he thinks they're the best way to deal with the pandemic); he's just against mandates, and believes you should speak with your own doctor about them. If that's being an anti-vaxxer, then most people are.