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How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience
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RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience
(October 10, 2021 at 11:09 am)Spongebob Wrote:
(October 10, 2021 at 9:12 am)no one Wrote: Science is always right, regardless of what some brainless buffoon thinks.

Humans may not understand, that does not change the validity of said science.

As little as 200 years ago there wasn't anyone who understood the lifecycle of a star, that did nothing to change the science of the lifecycle of stars

First of all, "science" is a method, not a institution, so it's not meaningful to say science is always right or wrong.  The method is sound and produces results; that's the most you can say with confidence.

Your star statement is true, but don't confuse scientific methodology with technology.  The reason we understand what we do about stars is because of telescopic technology.  Without that we would still know very little about stars except for their movements.  Their composition, distance, age, internal functioning, all of that would still be mostly speculation.

Scientific truth is contingent truth, testable and correctable.
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How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by vulcanlogician - October 9, 2021 at 2:18 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by LadyForCamus - October 9, 2021 at 2:30 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by brewer - October 9, 2021 at 2:37 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by AFTT47 - October 9, 2021 at 9:24 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Spongebob - October 10, 2021 at 8:30 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by no one - October 10, 2021 at 9:12 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Spongebob - October 10, 2021 at 11:09 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Jehanne - October 10, 2021 at 11:19 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by no one - October 10, 2021 at 11:45 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Jehanne - October 10, 2021 at 1:01 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Spongebob - October 10, 2021 at 1:30 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by no one - October 10, 2021 at 1:03 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by no one - October 10, 2021 at 2:39 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Spongebob - October 10, 2021 at 2:46 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by ThatNomad - October 10, 2021 at 2:50 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Anomalocaris - October 10, 2021 at 3:20 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Brian37 - October 10, 2021 at 3:27 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Spongebob - October 11, 2021 at 10:11 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Brian37 - October 11, 2021 at 10:22 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by HappySkeptic - October 11, 2021 at 10:55 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Ranjr - October 11, 2021 at 12:18 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Fake Messiah - October 12, 2021 at 12:54 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Brian37 - October 13, 2021 at 11:56 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Ranjr - October 13, 2021 at 12:11 pm

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