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I think people confuse “the process of science” for “something that is”. People think science is a thing instead of what it is - a method/process to discover ob

I think people confuse “the process of science” for “something that is”. People think science is a thing instead of what it is - a method/process to discover objectively true things. Or at least prove what is objectively false within our shared reality. A lot of things look like science and use the word “science” in them but don’t use the process of science to make their claims to truth. This is useful because how can you argue with “the science”?

dahart 4y ago
> how can you argue with “the science”? Yeah, totally agreed. It doesn’t even make sense to suggest that testing to check whether things work or not is the wrong process. The scientific method is tautologically true, right? This is one of the reasons I cringe at the yard signs in my neighborhood that declare “science is real”, as if it needed an affirmation. Somehow that seems to give more credibility to the idea that science might not be real, whatever that means. Of course science is real. We don’t have modern houses or cars or computers without, sillies.