Comment on Is a scientific lifestyle even possible?

• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have plenty of evidence. A little of it was even offered by a scientist.

    You should stop beating around the bush.

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So should we conduct our own experiment as to whether getting hit by a train is in fact fatal?

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