08-23-2021, 01:44 PM
(08-23-2021, 01:28 PM)Patrick Wrote: Yes and more to the point Margan, there are no sides in science.
(At least, there should not be: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719747/)
You're right. there shouldn't be. But there definitely is, and I am not referring to Covid or vaccines. I mean scientists themselves never agree. Science is either theory or functional—never the ultimate truth. For example, in human biology, we know so little about metabolism as to be virtually ignorant.
And even replicable empirical evidence is never the ultimate truth. At one point not so long ago Newton's physics reigned, then along came Einstein and quantum mechanics for a bigger picture. Newtonian physics is still functional in many ways, but not the whole picture, and actually wrong from certain perspectives.
The scientific method has value. But I don't personally rely on it as unquestionable for a variety of reasons—one being the human factor involved, and another the idea that there is always more to the picture. It has its place, but that can be put into a sensible perspective.