Science

Into the Night said:
There DO seem to be a fair number of scientists these days that deny science. 'Science' is one of the most used buzzwords in media today.
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No there are not. There are rightys who have poisoned the field with their political hatred of science. Science is based of real data and theories are predicated on all the facts that can be accumulated.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
to be fair, practical science may be self-correcting but the philosophy of science is not.......
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Simply because there is no such thing as 'philosophy of science'.

No theory, scientific or nonscientific, may be proved True. That is simply not possible. A theory of science, however, may be shown to be False. That test for the null hypothesis of any theory of science must be specific, and produce a specific result. That test must be available. It must be possible to conduct it. A theory that survives such a test is automatically a theory of science. It will continue to be so until it is falsified (the test result against the null hypothesis of the theory is True).
 
PostmodernProphet said:
the climate "crisis" had shown us that peer review has been replaced with political review..........perhaps instead of self-correcting you should speak of goal-correcting.......
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Science does not use peer review. There is no voting bloc in science that sanctifies any theory into a scientific one.
There is no such thing as 'climate science'. The phrase 'climate change' has not yet been defined. Neither has the phrase 'global warming'.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
given that evolutionary science has replaced the old scientific method with "if it meets with our assumptions we can continue to assume it is true", it is disingenuous to claim anything is an "of the gaps" argument......
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The Theory of Evolution is not a theory of science. Theories of science must be falsifiable. Science has no theories about past unobserved events.
 
Nordberg said:
No there are not. There are rightys who have poisoned the field with their political hatred of science. Science is based of real data and theories are predicated on all the facts that can be accumulated.
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Science does not use data. It does not use facts. Science is a set of falsifiable theories. No theory can be proven True.
Data is the result of an observation. All observations are subject to the problems of phenomenology. They are not science. They are not a proof. They are evidence only.

Science has no proofs. Science is not a field. Science is a set of falsifiable theories.
 
Into the Night said:
Science is not facts. Science is not scientists. Science is a set of falsifiable theories.
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Well that’s a pretty retarded bit of reductionism. The falsification principle is just one aspect of theory. Just as all theories must, in principle, be falsifiable they must also have a factual basis among other criteria as well.
 
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