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Re:Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts by js8 on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:40AM (#23818125)
Actually, homeopathy was a pretty decent theory when it appeared, in 1820s. What questioned its validity was two centuries of progress in physics, chemistry and biology.

So its validity was challenged a long time ago. All you need to know to question it today is that homeopathic principles haven't changed in the last 200 years.

Re:Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts by xscott on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:07AM (#23818341)
Oh please, you're just throwing up chaff because I contradicted your point. Pick some other whacko theory (crystal power, personal auras, whatever). You don't need to be an expert in bullshit to question whether something is bullshit. You're just pretty sure that you get to be the arbiter of what's bullshit and what's irrefutable without a pedigree.

Not all fields of science are on as good of a footing as physics and chemistry, and there is almost certainly something you currently believe which will be shown to be false in the future. This is exactly the problem mentioned in the article:

> “I defer to the experts” (said with pride).

Re:Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts by js8 on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:37AM (#23818538)
I am not really sure where you disagree with me, I would say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and so the whackier the theory, the easier it is to disprove.
Re:Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts by rsynnott on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:11AM (#23819876)
> was two centuries of progress in physics, chemistry and biology

Well, also _medicine_. The application of the scientific method to medicine more or less killed off homeopathy as something that could be taken seriously. It wasn't a scientific theory.