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A Whip of Cords's avatar

Brilliant. Concise. Cogent. Understandable. Repeatable by the lay person. Thank you. (BTW, independent audits of peer-reviewed research shows that about 90% of reported results cannot be reproduced by other, disinterested, scientists. We no longer have “science,” only “scientism.”)

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John Carter's avatar

We have a word for science that works. It's called engineering.

Science is an imaginal function. That isn't to say it should not be careful and rigorous, but that of necessity - operating as it does at the edge of knowledge, and trying to push that boundary outwards - it contains much that is speculative and much that is simply wrong. Every good paper has a Discussion section, which indulges in hypothesizing about what the results *might* mean. This is how it has to be.

But it follows from that, that science should never, ever be trusted.

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