Comment on Big Science

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Science does sometimes lie.

  Hm, imo, science doesn’t lie — scientists lie.

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• match@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Question the proven truth all the time,cas long as you’re not fighting against observations and evidence

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  • ursakhiin@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    as long as you’re not fighting against observations and evidence without additional observations and evidence.

    Observations and evidence could be non-maliciously incorrect. New observations could be made that invalidate the old after another change in our perception occurs.

    Observations and evidence just show to the best of our abilities at the moment.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I completely agree, heck there’s also times when all the science is done perfectly but the result is incorrect because the people interpreting the data got Cause and Effect backwards… Or worse, when the data checks out, but violates the current paradigm so much that the academia of the time rejects it out of principle alone and refuses to acknowledge you. (This literally happened when we discovered germs, and the first person to pitch the idea of the Big Bang was mocked over how “religious” the idea sounded, so yes, there’s precedent for this shit.)

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• thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But at what level of “proven” is it actually “proven”? That’s where a disconnect lays.

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