Oh look, a scientist who doesn't understand the point of science.https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/985201265394106368 …
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"Science requires evidence for all claims, except for the claim that science is the arbiter of objective truth." This is not an empirical statement, it's a philosophical one. Which is ironic considering how much NDT loves to shit on the humanities.
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I think both Newton and Einstein would argue that they were trying to find the objective truth about reality. And most of their discoveries did not take place in a lab.
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Maybe they would argue that, but so what? Bohr argued that this was not the task of physics. Both Bohr and Einstein proved to be right in different areas.
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I'm not arguing that there is no objective reality, just to be clear. All I'm saying is that the scientific method is a process coming up with theories that have better explanatory power than previous theories. Theories are used to solve problems.
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Einstein was also just as interested in epistemology as he was in the physical sciences, and thought it was extremely important for scientists to engage in the meta-discussion of what science is about, lest they be blinded into thinking their science is contextually independent.
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Einstein would scoff at Tyson's dismissal of philosophy.
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