Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha...
by j4yav on Sunday June 13, 2021 @08:51AM
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Some (most even that is relevant day to day?) is quite easy to validate and yet we still have flat-Earthers.
Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha...
by mensetmanusman on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:54AM
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Note that a lot of the flat earth stuff is a large troll to make people mad, crazy stuff comes out of 4chan…
But quite a lot "science" can not verified in the same manner as some physics, math, chemistry and biology can.
And to go from the fact that some science is verifiable and then conclude that everything which tries to take on the label science or follow similar rituals to the verifiable sciences, also deserves the same respect is quite a long jump.
In fact "science" or scientism seems to be one of the more dangerous religions nowadays, as the rituals of peer-review, papers and conferences, holy institutions like universities and sacraments of tenure and ph.d are very easy to adopt without being even remotely verifiable (or even slightly rational).