Comment on What Refutes Science...

MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Counterexamples only go so far. What you really need is counterexamples, and an analysis of their implications, including a probability study.

  In other words, well, science.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because of the implication.

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• 97xBang@feddit.online ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn't a counterexample just da tomb? Even though its only won case-a-dilla, it's still le sahyênçe.

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sorry, I don’t understand.

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    • 97xBang@feddit.online ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I'm being silly.

      Isn't a counterexample just one datum? Even though its only one case, it's still science.

      FTFM

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    • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Isn’t a counter example just data, even though it’s just one case it’s still science

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      • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Science requires systematic observation, measurement and usually variation (often experimentally controlled); and, usually, iterations.

        One datapoint outside such a system is not science.

        You can’t even necessarily just insert a new datapoint into a pre-existing scientific sytem. The system itself may need to be adjusted, for example to test and account for biases that often occur due to how observations are made.

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      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not to my mind, science requires a testable hypothesis and evidence. I would argue that merely refuting someone else’s hypothesis without providing a new one doesn’t meet the bar of doing science.

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      • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Speech-to-text set to the wrong language or something?

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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Counter examples only refute when they are publicised. When they are ignored because the status quo is preferred they achieve little

  See for example low carb nutrition

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