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Imagine if all the great minds of the past stopped asking questions just because someone thought they were hilariously wrong.
by Fervicus 3y ago
Imagine if all the great minds of the past stopped asking questions just because someone thought they were hilariously wrong.
- jacquesm 3y agoConspiracy theorists are not usually great minds.
- notahacker 3y agoBut then again, most of them are perfectly adequate minds that could have got a lot more right if they'd ever questioned themselves rather than assuming other people's disagreements merely proved how great they were...
- seanw444 3y agoThose that accept that everything is as they're told are also usually not great minds.
- ben_w 3y agoThe same can be said of those that reject everything they're told.
- seanw444 3y agoIt really just goes back and forth. The point here is that it's pointless.
- the_af 3y agoThe actual point is that both rejecting or accepting anything you're told is unwise, but it's safer to reject what conspiracy theorists say because their assertions are not well-grounded nor do they follow the scientific method. The procedures they follow (or fail to follow) are more important than their wild assertions. Ground-breaking assertions in science are not unheard of.
- Someone 3y agoI don’t think anybody is claiming their questions are wrong. It’s the way they answer them. And yes, that applies to mainstream fields, too. In the harder sciences such as psychology, sociology and history (physics is easy because all electrons are identical and repeating experiments is possible, if sometimes impractical) it is extremely hard to draw any conclusions, and there’s pressure to publish strong statements (both externally and from people’s egos). For example, discovering a new dinosaur is better for one’s career than discovering the one thousandth part of a thigh bone of a known one. To make things worse, the popular press version of such papers tend to remove many of the doubts that the ‘real’ papers mention. Non-mainstream publications are worse at that, though, by not mentioning doubts at all, and bending facts.
- edgyquant 3y agoHistory is definitely not a science and psychology and sociology are “social science” eg not science either. If you can’t make repeatable experiments it isn’t science
- RandomLensman 3y agoThe great minds of the past were hilarious wrong a lot of times, too. Asking questions is the easy part. Figuring out what good questions and answers are is the hard part.