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Originally Posted by blankall
I disagree strongly.
Science, by definition, is a competing set of theories and hypotheses. The majority view on which view is correct often changes as new information becomes available.
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I somewhat agree. Doesn't mean that a lot of it isn't ironic, or results aren't falsified, or data are too complex.
The absolute uncritical trust that most people place in scientists blows my mind; as if they weren't susceptible to the same cognitive errors as the rest of the population.
Certainly science as a discovery method is the most powerful type of epistemology in human history, but in regards to its absolute "TRUTH" value, we have to be selective. What if most major scientific discoveries have already been made, and what is left is subject to increasingly diminishing returns?
Climate science is one such avenue where we have to carefully distinguish between fact and opinion.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...rsus-opinions/