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[–] geekpuk2 3 points 2 points (+5|-3) ago 

Evolution is not settled science. Gravity is not settled science.

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[–] SaveTheChildren 4 points 0 points (+4|-4) ago 

Gravity doesnt exist. Only density and bouyancy.

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[–] chuckletrousers 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

And what's responsible for bouyancy? Gravity, duh.

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[–] ThirteenthZodiac ago 

I'll take the bait

It's... I'd hope it's not bait, because he's correct.

Science isn't some done deal, and it (almost assuredly) never will be. Science is making observations, making models and predictions that try to explain those observations, then seeing if those models and predictions hold up in new, previously-unobserved situations.

Along with that, you have to be willing to accept that you're wrong. That one counterexample can bring the entire edifice of your understanding of the universe to-date come tumbling down, that at any moment you could have to start again from base principles.

The issue is that today, lots of people don't seem to get this. The whole "climate science" deal is the exemplar of this problem: if you question the "accepted" model, you're ostracized from the community. This means that only people who believe - and "believe" is the right fucking terminology, here - in the model get to be part of that community, and thus will do everything in their power to twist data, ignore evidence, and otherwise anything that would prove them wrong.

Part of the problem, too, is scientific literacy in the general population, and journalists especially. Look at all the hullabaloo over the Higgs Boson, often referred to as "the god particle:" most people can't tell you what the fucking thing does, much less the context for the joke name (the guy in question was calling it "that goddamn particle," because it would be a bitch to find if it even existed, but quite a bit was riding on whether or not it did). Most journalists have no idea what the fuck a p-value is or its significance, or why the fact that outside of physics a p-value of .05 is considered sufficient should absolutely be a major concern.

Gravity isn't science at all, it's a phenomenon.

I feel like you're being a little pedantic, here. No, gravity isn't "science," but it is within the purview of scientific endeavor and, as a natural phenomenon, it falls to science to investigate it. It's not "settled" in the sense that while we've got pretty good models of how gravity works, that work for most cases we're likely to run into in our daily lives, there are some aspects of gravity that are really fucking bizarre, and we're not quite sure why it works the way it does in the edge-cases.

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[–] 16419319? [S] ago 

I was thinking more along the lines of Boasian anthropology or Climate science.

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[–] hels ago 

Galileo began the Illuminati.

Earth Air Fire Water

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[–] european 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Wait.. the illuminati were the good guys all along? Who are the baddies?

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[–] justlogin ago  (edited ago)

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[–] hels ago 

They were against the Catholic Church/Vatican. The Church had been against science and public knowledge since it formed.

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[–] 16403636? 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

I like the Electric Universe theory. Sure it some holes but so does cosmology.

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[–] SaveTheChildren 5 points 2 points (+7|-5) ago 

Liking things doesnt make them true. Outer space is fake and gay. Kike fairy tale for the goy. We live under the firmament.

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[–] chuckletrousers 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

But that's,exactly why you believe in the jew lies including the firmament, because you like them, no matter how much evidence to the contrary.

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[–] erricravi 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

bullshit

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[–] Butterbread ago 

Shut the fuck up, you faggot.

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[–] 16419308? [S] ago 

just look at what happened with the guy who discovered the movement of tectonic plates for a fairly recent example

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[–] Maddmartigan ago 

Exactly! Consensus does not equal truth.

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[–] EnsignPossible ago  (edited ago)

Unless the thousands of corrupt (incompetent?) scientists' lies fuel a popular hysteria that causes damage to the innocent. In which case "worth" means power. The individual good scientists can only lament. Which always makes me skeptical of scientists seeking power/control and fame.

There is nothing less popular than being right -Proust

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[–] SaveTheChildren 3 points 0 points (+3|-3) ago 

Earth is flat.

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[–] chuckletrousers ago 

And your brain is smooth.

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[–] coucou ago 

Hi LDP, Yes, I remember, and the guy who insisted they should do so -don't remember his name just now-, was ridiculed. So many mothers died because doctors and midwives wouldn't take heed ...

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