• Dieterlan@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This might be heresy, but I feel like saying that “science isn’t truth, it’s the search for truth”, and “if you disagree it’s not a disagreement, you’re just wrong” is internally inconsistent.

    • credo@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It needs to be “if you disagree without evidence.”

      They can leave that whole “if you’re not a scientist” bit in the rubbish bin.

      • wewbull@feddit.uk
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        5 months ago

        If you disagree without evidence, you’re not wrong. You can propose an alternative theory that is consistent with existing evidence and it’s just as valid as anybody else’s. The mission is then to find evidence which disproves one theory or the other.

        Conjecture is fundamental.