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How does this work for things like COVID vaccines, where waiting for a reproduction study would leave hundreds of thousands dead? Ultimately there needs to be s
by yunwal 2y ago
How does this work for things like COVID vaccines, where waiting for a reproduction study would leave hundreds of thousands dead? Ultimately there needs to be some level of trust in scientific institutions as well. I do think placing higher value on reproducibility studies might help the issue somewhat, but I think there also needs to be a larger culture shift of accountability and a higher purpose than profit.
- mistermann 2y agoI believe if we taught philosophy in school to a non-trivial level we wouldn't have to rely on trust/faith. I wonder if it's possible to get people to wonder why the one discipline that has the tools to deal with all of these epistemic, logical, etc issues isn't taught in school. You'd think it would be something that people would naturally wonder about, but maybe our fundamentalist (and false) focus on science as the one and only source of knowledge has damaged our ability to wonder independently.
- arktos_ 2y ago[dead]
- fluoridation 2y agoSuppose you need to make a decision on a topic that's contingent on P being true, which someone has already tested. How would you go about making the decision without testing P yourself (because that would mean that you would have to do the same for every decision in your life)?
- mistermann 2y ago> How would you go about making the decision without testing P yourself (because that would mean that you would have to do the same for every decision in your life)? This does not seem necessary for my ask above. There may be many approaches, some impossible/invalid, but perhaps not all.