Two points. (1) Wearing a mask costs more - it's uncomfortable and one cannot cheat. (2) People misunderstand science. It starts with a conjecture that is tested and is either disproved or not. It is never proved correct. Scientific support means tests haven't failed yet.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1248333452371468295 …
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I'd say that science is not the systematic part. That's politics (academia). Testing out what works best for a given goal. Science is the creative, Eureka! random discovery of a new way of thinking about reality, putting two different ideas together to procreate a new idea.
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Yes, that's creativity. We run simulations with that idea in our minds and discard those that fail. Eventually we express the idea with the view to having it empirically tested.
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Is this a better explanation for how science creates knowledge?
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