Ted Talk Review Why people believe weird things

Re:Ted Talk Review Why people believe weird things by metaphorm on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:35PM (#14039477)

you missed something important

> dogmatic belief in the supremacy of rationalism and materialism

good science absolutely must take a rationalist and materialist view. however, the needs of good science are not necessarily the supreme values which to make any and all decisions.

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Re:Ted Talk Review Why people believe weird things by michaelmrose on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:53AM (#14040259)

What else do you base decisions on?

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Re:Ted Talk Review Why people believe weird things by throwanem on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:05AM (#14040957)

Lots of things! Because I'm not actually a practicing researcher. And the set of practicing researchers I've known is, perhaps not so oddly, disjoint with the set of dogmatic scientific positivists I've known. No one has a better grasp of the vast difference between ideal science and real science than someone who actually does science for a living.

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Re:Ted Talk Review Why people believe weird things by michaelmrose on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:31AM (#14041063)

Can you name some of those lots of things?

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Re:Ted Talk Review Why people believe weird things by pjc50 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:21AM (#14041234)

Science can tell you how things work and how to achieve particular results. It can't tell you what is important, because that's fundamentally a question of human values.

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