Originally Posted by
Mott the Hoople
What makes science unique from other philosophies is that science is specifically designed to be self correcting. Is science often wrong? Absolutely and more than lay people think. The truth is that in practicing science you will almost always be wrong more often than you’re right. The whole purpose of science is to determine what to the best of our knowledge are the facts about nature. The scientific methods purpose is to identify these facts but science is self correcting but cause one of its primary tenets is that all knowledge is tentative and all scientific knowledge is predicated on the basis that you may be wrong. Even if the probability of being wrong is incredibly small, you still might be wrong. There are no absolutes in science. Just differing degrees of the probability of being correct. This concept makes science self correcting. When a new fact with a higher probability of being correct is discovered than what was previously believed then that belief must either be abandoned if that fact falsifies it or that belief must be modified to account for this new fact.
So that’s the humbling part of science.
As to your point on science being abused by those outside of science with other agendas cannot be placed at the foot of science. Rather it is the individual’s responsibility to be literate in science so that they can question questionable science. In most cases where science is abused by those with agendas other than science it is almost always scientist who point that out.
This is also why scientist are the single most respected group of professionals.
Science has largely failed because the people in science have all to often cared more about what was best for their careers than they did what was best for science.
Also, increasingly scientists are held in low regard, for cause.
You are many decades out of date.
The bottom line is that conservatives cant admit to themselves the Evil they have allowed to romp on their watch.
This is going to hurt.
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