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Science can be conclusive.

• ekianjo 5y ago
  Sure, everyone was positive about a millenium ago that everything rotated around the Earth. It was not even up for debate, even among scientists. We all know how that turned out.
  • ethbr0 5y ago
    That's a selective reading of scientific history. What about the rest of our modern scientific knowledge base? Gravity. Electromagnetism. Chemistry. Biology. There are entire swathes of disciplines that are well nailed down by results, and used daily as though they were fact. Because they work reliably. So I'm going to call BS on the idea that science can't be conclusive because of the definition of the scientific method. It's arguing in bad faith to point at the 1% and ignore the 99%.
• realreality 5y ago
  Even when it's conclusive, it should never become "not up for discussion". That's the realm of blind faith.
• netr0ute 5y ago
  Individual studies might be conclusive about a particular thing, but as a whole, science by definition isn't conclusive.
  • ethbr0 5y ago
    > Everyone got a vaccine and that is how it was because the decision was science-based and not up for discussion. And that's exactly what GP was stating, which is why parent's quip against an out of context quote was unreasonably pedantic.