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I'm getting a bit tired of articles that offer to explain science but don't mention falsifiability or reality testing. > Science is people. Spectacularly fals
by lutusp 13y ago
I'm getting a bit tired of articles that offer to explain science but don't mention falsifiability or reality testing.
> Science is people.
Spectacularly false. Science's primary obstacle, its single most important handicap, is people. In fact, the reason science exists at all is to compensate for how badly people test reality. Science is a kind of intellectual crutch so that people who cannot think, can at least assume a roughly upright posture in the world of ideas, maybe even stand "on the shoulders of giants".
I look forward to a time (in the far future) when what we call "science" will be a normal way to think about the world, rather than a special discipline representing a dramatic contrast to the majority of human behavior.