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re: "Why Do People Persist in Believing Things That Just Aren't True?"
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:33 am to GeauxTigerTM
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:33 am to GeauxTigerTM
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To pretend that science is not reliable because it's never 100% correct is absurd.
Yet scientists are quick to assert that the current conclusions are totally correct. Scientists do tend to have this god like opinion of themselves.
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:40 am to Gray Tiger
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Yet scientists are quick to assert that the current conclusions are totally correct.
No, they aren't. Science doesn't conclude anything to 100% certainty. This is am misrepresentation of what science is.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:47 am to Gray Tiger
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Yet scientists are quick to assert that the current conclusions are totally correct. Scientists do tend to have this god like opinion of themselves.
No, this is what religions and dogmas do. The scientific field holds to what the evidence says at a given moment. It molds ideas around evidence, not evidence to fit ideas.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:11 pm to Gray Tiger
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Yet scientists are quick to assert that the current conclusions are totally correct. Scientists do tend to have this god like opinion of themselves.
If that is their findings and no one has the evidence to refute it, why should they not be confident in it?
Posted on 5/21/14 at 5:37 am to Gray Tiger
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Yet scientists are quick to assert that the current conclusions are totally correct. Scientists do tend to have this god like opinion of themselves.
"Scientist" is the most overused term of the decade. We use the word to elevate a technical specialist to godhood. When a Botanist talks about Climate Change, they call him a scientist in order to add credibility. They are just specialists in a field of study, and the media usually is talking to the wrong specialist when discussing climate change.
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