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How our botched understanding of 'science' ruins everything
- lutusp 12y agoNice article. A quote: "Because people don't understand that science is built on experimentation, they don't understand that studies in fields like psychology almost never prove anything, since only replicated experiment proves something and, humans being a very diverse lot, it is very hard to replicate any psychological experiment. This is how you get articles with headlines saying "Study Proves X" one day and "Study Proves the Opposite of X" the next day, each illustrated with stock photography of someone in a lab coat. That gets a lot of people to think that "science" isn't all that it's cracked up to be, since so many studies seem to contradict each other." Gee, that sounds familiar.
- jimiwen 12y agoScientific methods are useful, maybe be absolute sometimes, but it is not the everything. Truth, Empathy, Beauty are what we experience and live.