Comment on I love science
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
why is the anglophone sphere calling every slightly complex phenomenon science? science is a method, AFAIK, that produces reliable knowledge over time.
for example how is the sun itself science? sure, there’s knowledge to be made about composition, dynamics etc., but when this knowledge gets widely shared without the goal of expanding existing knowledge for the goal of education or entertainment, hasn’t this long left the field of science?
for science, why aren’t you saying you love edutainment?
At school, topics are divided into Arts, Science and Humanities. The majority of Bachelor’s degrees are titled Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.
Using the word “Science” colloquially to describe anything that isn’t the Arts or Humanities is entirely consistent.
German has Geistes- (Spirit/Mind) Sciences and Natural Sciences.
I don’t see how the imprecision of calling it simply Science is valid though, given that it’s just a lukewarm repost of the age old quantitative vs qualitative research war.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
I have a similar issue with the word research. Do your own research - wtf. Research is either standing in the lab and actually experimenting, or conducting (clinical) studies, or at the very least an extensive literature research that even for a paper takes days (more like weeks and months) and a lot of knowledge on the field as well as methods for literature research in this sphere to be conducted properly. I absolutely don’t want you to do your own research about my field of study. You probably have a job and don’t want to go to university for 6 years to understand my niche.