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Re:Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence... by mistermann on Thursday September 14, 2023 @05:28PM (#37515095)
Believe it or not, I have had more than one person tell me with sincerity that observing the contents of a box is "doing science", I imagine because they believe that science is actually the only way to acquire knowledge.

Meanwhile, these people mock the religious [in their imagination] for "being" insular/fundamentalist.

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Re:Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence... by T-A on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:59PM (#37515927)
“When you break an egg and scramble it you are doing cosmology,” said Sean Carroll, a cosmologist at the California Institute of Technology.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html

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Re:Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence... by NikolaNovak on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:17PM (#37517443)
What are the other ways?
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Re:Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence... by Muromec on Friday September 15, 2023 @03:31AM (#37519727)
Making things up
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