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Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It? (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/science@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

At least in person I've had a little luck explaining that science doesn't actually claim to be the Truth. It does however prove what's false. So the current science is only the best idea we have so far. And when we have new information current science changes.

Compared to faith or religion which has no idea if it's wrong, and refuses to change with new information. Which is more trustworthy for the most effective advice in a changing world?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    It does however prove what's false provide evidence of what's un/likely.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    No. No, it proves what ideas are not true.
    That's what the falsifiable standard is all about.

    What you might be thinking of are unfalsifiable claims, like religion often makes. And in those cases yes, science can't say they're false. So science doesn't apply at all to those things. You may use logic or mathematics to try find a probability for those things, but that's not realy science. Those are different disciplines. Though they do have overlap, as science uses them also.

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