So how do scientists gain knowledge, if not by using the scientific method?pic.twitter.com/KaSVdLklhh
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I do think it’s important to defend the unique value of science! Now more than ever in the past century. I agree sometimes myths can be useful for such things. I worry the populace is now savvy enough that telling them demonstrably false stories may be counterproductive.
My big, probably oversimplified, story is that science and rationality lost credibility because the stories used to justify them were false, and eventually everyone realized they were false, but proponents didn’t switch to more accurate ones. So now everything is falling apart.
If moving beyond rationality is the inevitable shape of a successive developmental stage then there doesn't need to be anything wrong with, or false about, rationality or its justifications for some people to reject it. /
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