Re:Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than ...
by pjkundert on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:27PM
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That's the beauty of the Scientific Method.
It doesn't take a multitude of people to falsify an unsound claim.
It only takes one counterexample.
Could it be that "Trust the Science" is simply an attempt to prop up faulty science that can't survive scrutiny?
Re:Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than ...
by lotsofpulp on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:09PM
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The data should, of course, be made available so anyone can try to verify.
But at the of the day, for the most complicated topics, we will have to trust others.
Re:Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than ...
by ghostwriter on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:45PM
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> And then a sizable portion of those would not understand the math to be able to understand the measurements they would be making.
There's a sizable portion of so-called scientists that neither know nor understand math either [1]
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1xfa8p/medical_paper_...
Even if raw datasets were available, I suspect 95%+ of people lack the ability to draw conclusions from them.
A majority would fail simply in the step of opening a browser and navigating the internet to get to the dataset.
And then a sizable portion would fail at figuring out which programs to use to analyze them.
And then a sizable portion of those would not understand the math to be able to understand the measurements they would be making.
The emergence of certain mostly trustworthy organizations filled with mostly trustworthy people is what has gotten us humans this far. People do not have the capacity to be able to comprehend and analyze all of nature, they will have to rely on trustworthy specialists.