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As a scientist, it literally doesn't make any to believe in 'science'. It's a method, a collection of tools to get your point across. I get paid to write reports that even though I may totally believe in my premise, there's nothing substantially there to convince others. You go through the method, you lay out the rules, you let people know where the decision points are, you back up your assumptions, and you bring them to the trough. It's up to them to drink...its up to us to convince them it's the right trough and it's safe for them to do so. It all comes down to risk for people.

Believing in science is absurd. I mean if you don't trust Maxwells equations then you derive them for yourself...that's not belief, that understanding your tools.

ETA: I'm a difficult person to convince, as I hope most scientists are.

Please detach your nose from your own gooch... the average person does not think in terms of science, nor are they likely to understand the vast majority of how or why the world around them works on a scientific level- for this vast majority of people they take what is told to them regarding science on faith, or "belief."

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Posted by Peazey

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Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:04 am to ManBearTiger

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for this vast majority of people they take what is told to them regarding science on faith, or "belief."

Yet another example of how the vast majority of people are morons. I don't take any science on faith. I simply don't have opinions on things that I don't understand or don't see results from. If I can see the results from something then I'll accept the scientific explanation as the probably being the best explanation even if I don't completely understand some of the specifics. I don't consider that taking it on faith though.

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