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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by iechoz6H on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:56AM (#28852958)
As Wittgenstein notes in On Certainty ‘A doubt without an end is not even a doubt.’ Bad faith scepticism is of this order, no amount of evidence will convince such sceptics. Science doesn't become 'harder' in the face of the this kind of scepticism, it becomes irrelevant.
Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by marginalia_nu on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @11:03AM (#28853049)
Why must skeptics be convinced? It is perfectly okay to live in doubt, ask Pyrrho.