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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?
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.
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?
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.