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Context man, I'm referring the the parents comment that the scientific method is perfect and operated by infallible humans leads to bad results and I would cont
by drbojingle 5y ago
Context man, I'm referring the the parents comment that the scientific method is perfect and operated by infallible humans leads to bad results and I would contend that if process is truly perfect it can't be corrupted. The scientific method is useful not perfect. Nothing is perfect.
- thephyber 5y agoAgree. Context is important. > Nothing is perfect. Meh. You are being unnecessarily pedantic here. If nothing is perfect then we wouldn’t have a word for it. It is so close to perfect for anything that humans have made that it is almost indistinguishable. In fact, language evolves with how people use it. The word perfect has another definition which very well applies here. Fact is that The Method is resilient to the infallibility or maliciousness of scientists or charlatans. It has survived hundreds of years of charlatans running bad experiments, faked data, lots of oversimplified press coverage, etc and The Method itself is every bit as accurate and useful as it was when first formulated.
- drbojingle 5y agoThat's like saying cthulu is real because we have a word for him. Your picking precise word definitions and expecting me to guess which ones your using and yet calling me pedantic. The irony.