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Your use of the word encouraged is doing a lot of heavy lifting. In the abstract, sure, scientists are "encouraged" by some platonic ideal. In reality, scientis
by Kranar 5y ago
Your use of the word encouraged is doing a lot of heavy lifting. In the abstract, sure, scientists are "encouraged" by some platonic ideal. In reality, scientists are not encouraged by other scientists to update their model based on new information and there is a great deal of resistance in many scientific fields to gain such information or even what constitutes new information.
- arrosenberg 5y agoThat's pretty much why I added it! I've known a lot of scientists who fall in love with their research a bit too much, and some of our most important scientists have been pious Christian monks and Muslim scholars. My point is that the central dogma of science is to be skeptical of existing thought and to update the model. The central dogma of most religions is to preserve tradition and be skeptical of challenges to existing thought.
- mcguire 5y agoOne of the most important things Einstein did was to not immediately update his model based on the new quantum mechanics and to attack it as strongly as he could. An inherent conservatism avoids a lot of weird, faddish behavior.