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A scientist would respond: How many ethical theories were accepted by contemporaries, only to later be shown to be flawed? If you want to attribute deaths to b
by delluminatus 13y ago
A scientist would respond: How many ethical theories were accepted by contemporaries, only to later be shown to be flawed?
If you want to attribute deaths to bad science, then you must also attribute far more to bad philosophy.
- ThomPete 13y agoThats not really fair. The point I think the Parent is trying to make is. Remember what science is and how it works and why it's useful.
- delluminatus 13y agoIt's perfectly fair. What's not fair about it? Science is a loose methodology. But scientific institutions are fallible. Scientists are fallible. And the methodology is fallible as well, especially in the short term. The whole point is that even if mistakes are made in the small, progress is made in the large. I don't really understand the point you (or the parent) are trying to make.
- ThomPete 13y agoYou are cherry picking one part of his argument and claiming that this is what he claims. He isn't only talking about ethics.
- delluminatus 13y agoWhat is he talking about?