• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    4 days ago

    Except it doesn’t. Science is all about asking questions, religion is about accepting answers.

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      4 days ago

      That’s the ideal the commentor is talking about, this isn’t reality. A significant number of peer reviewed papers are being published without replicable results or any hint of a falsifiable hypothesis.

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        4 days ago

        No one is arguing that every scientist is ethical.

        The issue is at its core one is about questioning and one isn’t. That fundamental doesn’t change.

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        And how do you know this? Is it because someone said “this is true” and then someone else was then able to say “no it isn’t - and here’s the evidence”.

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          3 days ago

          Well, that’s kinda my point, a lot of modern theoretical physics doesn’t present a falsifiable hypothesis - it can’t be tested, there’s no proposal for how it could ever be tested.

          In terms of evidence the unrepeatable results - some of it is being repeated and checked, a lot of it isnt. Predictions of how bad the problem is is derived statistically. So much so it’s considered a crisis in modern science.