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> It seems to me that "scientific" is losing some of the cachet it once had. I would say that term is being used to label things that it shouldn't be used to l
by pdonis 3y ago
> It seems to me that "scientific" is losing some of the cachet it once had.
I would say that term is being used to label things that it shouldn't be used to label. We still have scientific models that have very accurate predictive power. But many things that are labeled as "scientific" aren't in that category.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoI think that's right. "Scientific" has prestige, so people who want prestige label stuff as "scientific", even though it doesn't fit. As a result, "scientific" starts losing prestige because the label is applied to all this stuff, much of it bogus.