Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by bowmessage on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:26PM
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"believe in science" What does this even _mean_?
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Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by version_five on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:32PM
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It means think what someone else wants you to and don't question it.
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by IshKebab on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:41PM
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Believe that the things that science says are true actually are true. It's pretty clear, no?
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by missedthecue on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:36PM
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Is light a wave or a particle?
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by IshKebab on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:26AM
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It's something that has wave-like and particle-like properties. What's your point?
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by markdown on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:29PM
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That you have faith in the ability of the scientific method to ultimately reveal objective truths about the universe.
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by Cederfjard on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:38PM
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And, I guess, that you believe that there’s a scientific establishment that adheres to that method, and that the results it generates are disseminated faithfully to society at large.
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by nickff on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:52PM
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I (mostly) agree with your definition, but the word 'ultimately' does a lot of work there. Many people who use 'believe in (the) science' are actually asserting that science already revealed the objective truths of the matter in question.
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by ekianjo on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:50PM
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Why do you need to have faith ? The scientific method is all about proof.
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by nickff on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:53PM
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At some point, you just have to believe, if you want to go much deeper, you get into epistemology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima...
by angelzen on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:00AM
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That is precisely the point where Science ends. The notion that Science can and should provide a full account of the Universe in all its complex glory is a very strange idea, conveniently promoted by those holding the credential purse strings, aka the Science hierarchy.