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Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima... by bowmessage on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:26PM (#28792888)
"believe in science" What does this even _mean_?
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima... by version_five on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:32PM (#28792935)
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 (#28793050)
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 (#28793573)
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 (#28799015)
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 (#28792911)
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 (#28793010)
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 (#28793160)
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 (#28793152)
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 (#28793182)
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 (#28799386)
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.
Re:Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on clima... by t0bia_s on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:18PM (#28793394)
Proof is changing over time.