Re:Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
by pdonis on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:17AM
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> It seems to me that "scientific" is losing some of the cachet it once had.
I would say that term is being used to label things that it shouldn't be used to label. We still have scientific models that have very accurate predictive power. But many things that are labeled as "scientific" aren't in that category.
Re:Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:54AM
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I think that's right. "Scientific" has prestige, so people who want prestige label stuff as "scientific", even though it doesn't fit. As a result, "scientific" starts losing prestige because the label is applied to all this stuff, much of it bogus.
That's a dangerous business, with high odds of loss of mindshare, but if I'm right, doing nothing leads to the inevitable loss of mindshare. But they'll probably still choose to do nothing, because that loss of mindshare happens more slowly.