I'd agree. A civil engineer must rely on infrastructure she didn't build. A surgeon relies on a network of EMTs, nurses and doctors outside the operating room. No profession is a island. That said, I totally agree that SW reliability - and performance - hasn't kept pace with HW.
If there was a lot of very vocal denunciation of, eg., medical and psychological sciences by other sciences, that would be one thing. But in general there has been very little of that and a lot more blaming of people for not "trusting science" without differentiating.
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Stated alternately, if you want to blame someone for not believing in "science", you first have to explain how that person was supposed to tell the difference between real science and fake science. How is the average citizen going to do that?
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Yep. As I said, it's an education problem, not the fault of the scientific community. I donate to Union of Concerned Scientists and National Center for Science Education because I think better science education is a big part of the solution. Dumping on science doesn't help.
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Still, I don't blame the scientific community for this state of affairs. I blame marketing firms, our faltering underfunded education system, and more recently soc media for amplifying BS and blurring the line between it and fact.