Can we trust science?
Hello everybody, my name is Ariel. I have two hands and five fingers on each one of them. How do I know that? Because I can see them, my eyes and my brain are constantly reminding me of that information. But, can we trust our eyes?
Most of the science we have done as humans is based on our observation, on us trusting our eyes (and in some cases other senses). Then, how do we know if what we know is true?
A paper published on 2005 called Why Most Published Research Findings Are False by John P. A. Ioannidis (http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124) shows that the statistical analysis scientists use today to make predictions leads to nearly a third of the published results to be wrong.
Is this concerning? I don't know. But what I do know, is that all the scientific discoveries we have made have taken us far enough. Thanks to science, mankind has stepped on the moon. Thanks to science we can Google birthdate of Abraham Lincoln in much less than a second. So, can we trust science? Definitely yes.
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