When you hear someone in the news talking about science, that isn't science. That's someone's interpretation of science, and it has the same level of credibility as a political opinion, which is low.
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Are the people interpreting science for us usually right, usually wrong, or something closer to a coin toss? You and I have no idea.
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"Science" -- as it is used by the public and politicians -- has become something closer to a con game. The "real" science is behind a curtain and unavailable to the public. What we see are humans telling us what to think about the science, backed by studies we can't judge.
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Science is similar to religion in the sense that we depend on designated experts to explain to the ignorant masses -- that's us -- how to think about it.
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That's why I've come to see anyone screeching "follow the science" as operating at a low level of awareness. We all WANT to follow the science. It just isn't a thing. The best we citizens can do is choose which "explainer" to believe. That gives us the illusion of being smart.
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You don't need to stream into the comments to sciencesplain to me what science is and how it works. Assume I know that, and assume you're missing the point if you are leaving that type of comment.
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Interpretation of data from experiment rarely converges to an absolute, assumptions are built into most experiments and models. If you use different assumptions it changes the story. If done in a controlled environment, it doesn’t mean it scales to the complex one we live in.
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Exactly. There are news articles DAILY that say something to the effect of: "new report shows 'X', which is very different from what scientists thought..."
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I don’t know. From the beginning, I’ve been reading the studies and making judgements for myself.
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The way to do it.
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