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It means it hasn’t been verified, which means you can’t be sure a lot of it is useful at all.
by edgyquant 3y ago
It means it hasn’t been verified, which means you can’t be sure a lot of it is useful at all.
- corethree 3y agoScientific rigor has it's limits. Certain fields need to make intuitive leaps of speculation. For example the entire field of astronomy is basically unverifiable bullshit. It's all speculation. We make guesses on what's going on with the stars outside of our solar system from twinkling light that comes from light years away. Any science to verify the claims made by astronomy with the amount of rigor you demand would involve light speed space ships to go to those stars and verify. If we could do this I think you'd find a ton of astronomy would be flat out wrong. Nonetheless the field is still useful and legitimate despite the high likelihood a lot of it is wrong and despite the fact we can't verify much.