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Most of the time when you hear a result in science news that 'seems obvious why research that?' is because of poor reporting.
by SubiculumCode 3y ago
Most of the time when you hear a result in science news that 'seems obvious why research that?' is because of poor reporting.
- mrguyorama 3y agoOr because nobody listens to the times we research an "obvious" thing and it is anything but! Remember, disease spreading in polluted water wasn't obvious at one point, and physicians washing their hands before doing surgery was so "unobvious" that what was considered obvious at the time was that a physicians hands are of course clean. "Common sense" isn't merely a myth, but also often is propaganda, that everything we know is obvious and easily understood by a layman from first principles that you can reason through, rather than having to rely on extremely specialized people to do real tests of things we think we "know" to find out what reality is. Remember that next time someone wants to push "Common Sense" regulation on anything. Humans are explicitly ANTI-rational creatures, and the ONLY defense against that is to verify everything we can against reality's judgement. At no point could anyone have just "thought about it harder" to get from aristolean physics to Newtonian physics. Rhetoric cannot provide answers or new information, it can only convince.