That would make a large chunk of academia qualify as religion, not science.
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Interesting. What would be your best example?
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Everybody has their faves, but here's something I wrote about old-school biblical criticism years back:http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/01/my-take-it-doesnt-matter-who-wrote-the-bible/ …
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short answer from my end is any field that believes itself scientific but actlly far from hard science is incentivized 2 overstate certainty
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Thank you for your replies. This clarifies your original answer for me.
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That was one of the most polite conversations on twitter I have ever seen.
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Thank you kindly.
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Yet the curtain of science hides innumerable atrocities in the name of partial knowledge, particularly the medical studies!
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Empirical knowledge requires experimentation. Unfortunately for medicine, that experimentation has too often been at the expense of patients
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And experiments immorally made without disclosure to test subjects, while the ones conducting trials had awareness of harmful consequences.
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I'm not suggesting that it was prosecuted correctly. But I would suggest that the errors of scientists are no indictment of science.
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The method of science is only as good as the people practicing it, while the idea is indeed noble. The 'idea' is tainted by many objectives.
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That's true for any human endeavor. I might suggest, given the foundations upon which it is built, science is less susceptible than others.
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You should have Justin pearce or Jason silva on the podcast, thanks for amazing podcast
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Wow. Clapping. Standing up and clapping. Why aren't people like sam Harris running nations
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Because at some point you have to make a gut decision based on incomplete information and this whole debate becomes a pointless joke
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Are you trying to equate making an educated guess with the fabrication of an entire belief system?
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