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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 16

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Blake Lawrence

      "It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false." How? Because there is an epistemology which accepts that claims can be true or false etc because it accepts that an objective reality exists and can be got at by humans via empirical testing.https://twitter.com/blakej_lawrence/status/1052391080371449856 …

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      Blake Lawrence @blakej_lawrence
      Replying to @HPluckrose
      And even the empirical ways have enormous flaws: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124&type=printable …
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    2. Matt McManus‏ @MattPolProf Oct 16
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I don't even think you need to go that far. Popperian falsification theory essentially claims you don't need to claim you have full knowledge of the "objective" world. You just get closer and closer over time.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 16
      Replying to @MattPolProf

      Yes, that's what I began with. But we can accept that something like "Do vaccines cause autism?" has a right answer and we can test it and reach a conclusion which indicates action even if we cannot be absolutely sure we have full knowledge of any of the elements involved.

      8:23 PM - 16 Oct 2018
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        1. Matt McManus‏ @MattPolProf Oct 16
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Indeed. If anything I was never sure how deep skepticism was meant to abet progressive causes in the long term; especially when so much relies on convincing people man-made climate change is real, government inoculation campaigns are valuable, and so on.

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        1. BigVicSA‏ @BigVicSA Oct 17
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          As it is not possible to prove that something does not exist (or is not the cause), it is futile to use science to find an answer to an emperical question like the link between autism and vaccines. We need to think deeper if we wish to refute the "stupid claims"

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