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Scientists are human. Science is the work of humans. Humans, and their works, are flawed. This is a problem like our eventual deaths are problems. Sure, it might suck, but what are you going to do? twitter.com/WAWilsonIV/sta

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@Triquetrea

Jun 20, 2018

Astrophysics and psychology share a common flaw, however: a lack of instruments with sufficient sophistication to measure what needs to be measured. And limited opportunity for direct observation and, hence, for falsification.

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@Triquetrea

Jun 20, 2018

Physics is far more sophisticated and mature than psychology, but there is still human error, measurement error, unknowable variables... The farther you get from our atmosphere, the worse. The more erratic something moves, the worse. Etc.

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@Triquetrea

Jun 20, 2018

I think that's wrong, and presumes a scientistic model of the world. The problem comes from scientism, not science. "Listen to the science!" "But the science is flawed, and the researchers might be biased, and we might be measuring the wrong thing..." "Listen anyway!"

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@Triquetrea

I agree, for example, that nothing in psychology is settled in any meaningful sense, other than some scattered data points (which do not a theory make). That is an important point to make.

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