Comment on Is a scientific lifestyle even possible?
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, it is. Me and most people on the planet live a scientific lifestyle, the last time humans didn’t was known as the dark ages. Don’t believe me? Then why haven’t you jumped in front of a train or exiting skyscrapers through the window? The reason is the enormous amount of scientific evidence that tells you otherwise, and no matter how much unscientific people think they are they still follow th scientific method every day for all facets of their life without noticing, they just decide that this or that does not need the same amount of scrutiny that they put on their ability to survive a 100m fall.
dope@lemm.ee 11 months ago
But the vast majority of us don’t “follow the scientific method”. But we do is place our trust in scientific authority. That’s quite a different thing.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So do you think you don’t have enough evidence that jumping out of a skyscraper will kill you? Do you need to conduce experiments by yourself? Or do you trust on the scientific authorities for this?.
If you trust them for this, why not trust them for other things? And if you don’t why not jump of a skyscraper?
dope@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I have plenty of evidence. A little of it was even offered by a scientist.
You should stop beating around the bush.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not beating around the bush, that is the core of the scientific method, you have plenty of evidence, even if the majority of it is other people’s research. Apply the same to everything else (like you’re probably already doing anyways, since I doubt you have personally invented the computer
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
So should we conduct our own experiment as to whether getting hit by a train is in fact fatal?