How is this anti-science? It’s a description of how things happened and tend to happen.
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Replying to @TheWeaseKing @nberlat and
Because it’s painting one of the marvels of modern discovery as a random happenstance.
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Replying to @TWLadyGrey @nberlat and
No one said that though. They said that we did things without knowing precisely WHY they worked that way, but that it seemed to work- and that we worked out why later.
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Replying to @TheWeaseKing @TWLadyGrey and
Another example: People knew about infection by contact with the infected for thousands of years prior to germ theory being proved.
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Replying to @TheWeaseKing @nberlat and
Semmelweis was trying to convince doctors to wash their hands in the 1850s!
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Replying to @TWLadyGrey @TheWeaseKing and
right, but through trial and error I believe, not because he had a well developed understanding of germs.
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Replying to @nberlat @TheWeaseKing and
I think we are crossing plots here. My assumption is a 19th century doctor was aware of how the scientific method works and it probably shaped his thinking.
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Replying to @TWLadyGrey @TheWeaseKing and
this is absolutely false! the scientific method is a modern day invention and historians and philosophers of science generally believe it has little to do with how science works!
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Replying to @nberlat @TWLadyGrey and
The "scientific method" you're taught in school is this retroactive generalization turning something very messy and complex in real life into a "method", it's inaccurate the way anyone naming a "method" for art or writing would be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
What are you basing any of these statements on? Because evidence points to the contrary.
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This is history of science and/or philosophy of science 101 stuff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TWLadyGrey and
yes, evidence does not point to the contrary! my reading list is rusty, but again Leviathan and the Air Pump is a good source; Feyerabend's Against Method is a really fun classic that challenges a lot of common sense ideas about science.
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