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RE: Why should people believe in science? - You, Me and Science... Think about it 😉.
Nice post renzoarg, and some great points! I don't think anyone should "believe" in scientists or science (speaking from the perspective of being one, I don't believe anything my friends tell me, I usually say to them "show me the data"). Science isn't about belief! Its about data supporting or denying a hypothesis :)
Exactly, yet. Some schools still teach "science is right" when there's nothing further from the truth!
Preciselly, by admitting that "we can still be more accurate". We leave impossible absolutes out of the question, it's not "truth" yet it's more relyable than "because it's written that way".
Well science isn't really about being right or wrong, its about coming up with the best explanation we can for any given observation through experimentation. If an old explanation doesn't hold up, do more experiments until you come up with one that does hold up. Keep trying to prove that one wrong, until you get an even better explanation. That process is why I love being a scientist.
Sometimes its a real knock to the ego when someone proves your hypothesis incorrect though. Gotta put ego aside and let the data tell the story.
Yep.
I don't know why in this article "science" is a single answer to a single question.
Science is the concept of data analysis. It's not the concept of "I say this, you say that". No. We analyze and we decide what's the truth.
There's nothing about "believing in it". 2+2 = 4 it's science. 2 + 2 COULD POSSIBLY = 4 it's a supposition. Science is also made up with those and, on those term, I can accept the word "believe".
But with the common tasks and everything else, we have the data to decide whatever or not the scientist in question have the right to say what he's saying.
So Pi <> 3? :(
I 100% agree with this. Science is not a matter of beliefs. It is a matter of designing a theoretical framework to explain data. As one can make predictions, this framework is testable and can be improved.