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The world is full of things that were once considered common knowledge, but are now considered silly or downright wrong. Science is exactly in the business of f
by Etheryte 2y ago
The world is full of things that were once considered common knowledge, but are now considered silly or downright wrong. Science is exactly in the business of finding out which parts are actually true and which aren't, whether someone believed it before or not is rather irrelevant.
- benreesman 2y agoThis is a very insightful comment and something that I wish was observed more often. I’ll differ only a little in that as a good Bayesian I’ll submit that science is about improving the rigorous basis for our worldview by attempting and failing to falsify explanatory hypotheses. Maybe that’s a nitpick, but I suspect that science would be held in better regard if us nerds were a bit more careful about saying what is and isn’t true or false on the basis of science, which is not a particularly scientific way to talk (of which I’m as guilty as anyone).