It is not the incorruptible beacon of rationality and evidence-based problem solving that some (mostly not scientists) would like it to be.
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While science is not "made up", it is collectively constructed by people, and thus it has its share of biases and irrationality.
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Also, rationality is rarely perfectly held at the individual level. Some scientists may be v effective thinkers at times, crackpots at times
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What matters is that on a long enough timeline, the criterion for selecting ideas is "effectiveness". This means science "works". Mostly.
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i.e. reproducible experiments and working technological artifacts are the tally of what is scientific.
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The scientific method has been retrospectively defined as "that process which gets us to reproducible experiments and working tech"
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Scientists have their biases and irrationalities, not science.
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science doesn't exist in abstract, no?
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@fahd09 post-modernism?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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A real reason for biased growth of everything we do..
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