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submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you missed the point, I believe in the Scientific Method as one of the best ways to measure that which is objectively true. It can make no statements on the subjective however, nor the metaphysical.

However the problem is, too many people act as though we've reached the limits of what is possible to know with the sciences and treat it to be "Science's Infalliable Word", when the very nature of Science means we'll gladly throw out anything we already "know" to be true if we find conflicting evidence, and the world has been better off for it.

Heck the definition of "Dead" has changed several times because we keep learning that it's more like a spectrum than an on and off switch, which has so many implications that it makes my head hurt.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

I know that scientific knowledge gets updated all the time and with that, things sometimes change. That is fine, but at the same time you use what we have up to that point. If today scientific knowledge tells us that eating worms is healthy, we will do that more. If tomorrow it turns out that, oops, it's healthy on the left but unhealthy on the right, well stop eating them.

Either way, we go with what science has discovered so far. That is my point. Too many people these days don't understand how these discoveries are made and as such push against it.

This is how you get anti vaxxers who are hell bent on destroying humanity while thinking they are saving it. This is how you get flat-earthers.

Screw that, people need to learn in school how science works, how we get where we are with our knowledge, where that knowledge comes from. They need to learn the scientific method.

Then of course there are places like Texas where they keep shoving bibles in the schools to ensure kids stay dumb, gotta get them to vote against their own needs somehow...