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I think there's also the problem of science that has been elevated as a religion and anything labelled scientific is taken as gospel. We should all remember th
by jmnicolas 4y ago
I think there's also the problem of science that has been elevated as a religion and anything labelled scientific is taken as gospel.
We should all remember this study that showed that 90% of scientific papers weren't reproducible (not science then).
While I have no problem with science itself, scientists are humans, they make mistakes and can be bought.
- lo_zamoyski 4y agoPeople have trouble with moderation because moderation requires the skillful exercise of prudential judgement, and since prudence is a virtue, it means that it is something learned and acquired. That we can't verify everything personally and therefore must often rely, for practical reasons, on appropriate trust toward authority does not mean we ought to jump out of the pan of irrational skepticism into the fire of uncritical subservience.
- LeifCarrotson 4y agoWas that replication crisis study ever successfully reproduced?
- adastra22 4y agoYes. Massively.
- muaytimbo 4y agoYour assertion that 90% of scientific papers aren't reproducible is extremely simplistic. There is a vast difference in reproducibility across the different scientific fields. A lot of the "reproducibility" crisis is taking place in fields that are not even traditionally known as science.