I'm curious, have you ever studied philosophy? I ask because I often hear this kind of rhetoric from people who have a distorted idea of philosophy, and don't

I'm curious, have you ever studied philosophy? I ask because I often hear this kind of rhetoric from people who have a distorted idea of philosophy, and don't grasp the impact that philosophical thinking has on the proper performance of scientific inquiry. In the current case, we might not arrive at one definitive answer, but we can accomplish at least three things: 1. Eliminate bad answers 2. Understand the edge cases of the good answers 3. Ensure the scientific community is acting in accordance with 1&2 I think you may be surprised by how often the scientific community spins its wheels on nonsensical questions, due to a lack of philosophical grounding. One example is the mind-body problem. Gilbert Ryle shed light on the category error that underpins Cartesian dualism in the 40's. Until then, scientists were (quite frantically) searching for the locus of the soul.