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Re:In defense of flat earthers (2020) by tonymet on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:37PM (#29987755)
Naturally we're overindexing on telecom, given the HN audience – where we have practical applications of advanced physics.

But it's less concrete with other "sciences" like evolutionary psychology, behavioral economics. Even cosmology & theoretical physics is taken more on faith than trust. What observations of the multiverse or string theory can we build our trust on?

And medicine , molecular biology have also had mixed results, to the point that many beliefs were taken on faith (e.g. dietary vs blood cholesterol)

My point is don't lump all the "sciences" together in one lot of "the science"– there's a spectrum of observability and corroboration depending on the field.

Re:In defense of flat earthers (2020) by TameAntelope on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:52PM (#29987891)
No beliefs in science must be taken on faith. Some people do out of convenience perhaps, but they don't need to do, and if they decide not to, the path to corroboration is open to them.