Note that I am not endorsing the concept of peer review in general (though it's not all bad)
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Replying to @HbdNrx @AltRightTruth
Anyway, science & its grounding in reality and testability keep us from spiralling off into Talmudic bullshit
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Replying to @HbdNrx
I'm sorry: You believe science STOPS "Talmudic bullshit"? You have it exactly backwardspic.twitter.com/fq7ZfxE0Q1
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Replying to @AltRightTruth
Testing vs. reality is what stops talmuditry
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Replying to @HbdNrx @AltRightTruth
Let's say it's 3000 BC and you have people arguing about the philosophy of the flat earth etc. There are ways to test this and eventually you can shut the flat earth people up (notwithstanding today's tiny fringe) by collecting enough proof.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
(the "philosophy" of the flat earth?) anyway, these simple observations aren't "science" in any modern sense the fact that you're citing 3,000 year old debates is proof of how useless science, as a modern, formalized system, is
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Replying to @AltRightTruth
We could talk about more recent great achievements of science like the germ theory of disease, evolution and its mechanism, nuclear bombs and power, electricity, computers, and even the smallpox vaccine... I'm not sure why you'd say they're just engineering and not science
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Replying to @HbdNrx
i disagree with pretty much everything there but this got tiresome i provided you three links if you'd like to debate with others
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Replying to @AltRightTruth
You disagree with nuclear bombs and computers?
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Replying to @HbdNrx @AltRightTruth
I really don't understand your position here. Maybe you say they're "not science" or maybe you think the results are negative. If it's the former, well I think you're defining "science" unusually narrowly. If the latter, well, there are legitimately interesting args eg Ted K
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Ted is a good topic, but in the end I think he fails to understand how unstoppable tech is. But I respect his viewpoint.
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