Re:The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
by native_samples on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @04:51AM
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Yes, this gets into the (very important!) topic of what exactly the definition of science is.
Consider that the normal 'street' definition of people doing experiments on nature would mean the following fields aren't scientific:
1. Computer science
2. Economics
3. Climatology
I'd personally be fine with all three being considered un-scientific or even defunded, even though I quite enjoy reading computer science papers. It's more of an engineering discipline in my view and the attempts to make it seem scientific mostly just obfuscate things.
And most people would be fine with economics not being a science.
The live wire is of course climatology. These people don't do experiments, they just compile data and analyze it. Good luck convincing people that climatology isn't a science, even though you may be in the right about it!
May be I didn't make myself clear. I only meant to include actual experiments, in the context. So it will only involve procedures that include collecting raw data from nature.
Mostly agree with the rest of your comment.