(February 22, 2021 at 9:30 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 22, 2021 at 8:23 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Science is conjecture and refutation. Scientists are not skeptics nor absolutists―they are creative, curious, and open-minded. This is why Sean Carroll's comments sound un-scientific even if his position turns out to be correct.
Um no, science is not "conjecture". It is a method.
If one wants to argue that "scientists" disagree, that is a different subject. But the method is the concept of testing, observation, and peer review.
I think Breezy was trying to summarize the scientific method as being "conjecture and refutation". According to Popper, all science has is hypothesis and refutation of hypothesis through experiment, so I'm going to fact check this as "mostly correct". However, most scientists care little about Popper.