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What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all? (lemmy.world)

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[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

All of your own experiences are at the very least valid as you experienced them.

Scientific rigor states otherwise. You must be able to prove or repeat your experiences for them to be accounted as valid within the context of experimentation.

'Doing your own research' isn't the silver bullet you may think that it is. Most laypeople don't know what effective research actually looks like; let alone understand how to actually do it or the covariates that may truly be impacting their observations or research. Further still, some may not even care to know as they may already have established biases. More often than not, it simply leads to further conspiratorial thinking.

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