Thinking scientifically requires intellectual honesty: a desire to get to the truth, not just to gather data to confirm your current views
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Selectively quoting a few scientists that say what you wanted to hear, while discarding the rest, is not science. It's political propaganda.
Rational thinking considers all available evidence. You can only get there if you like the truth more than you like being proven right
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Also, if the scientists you quote speak with total confidence on a topic that is far from settled, maybe they're not very good scientists
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It's not having a PhD that makes you a scientist, it's applying the scientific method to advance human knowledge
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You need a hypothesis to test. The social sciences have drifted waaaaaay to far into subjective garbage.
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