This reads hyperbolic to me. They mean they trust that process, rather than "bible say no abortion" or whatever. Maybe its metal AF in the abstract but when I picture a breakthrough I imagine someone in their 60s with reading glasses on turning a journal page and saying "neat".
"I believe in science" is the cheapest intellectual dross on the market. Do you? Science is an ongoing institutional bloodbath; every "breakthrough" is a persistent or even cantankerous David finally scoring one on Goliath, often only posthumously. It's metal AF.
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Then read some more biographies
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One of the most surprising things I learnt in a philosophy of science class college is that scientists can be as dogmatic, or more, than religious types. Its eye opening how purveyors of debunked theories held onto them in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary.
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Yep. Planck's aphorism that "science advances one funeral at a time" is quite accurate.
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I tend to respond with “ which science and whose science??”
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To my eye, the whole point of science is that it's not something that demands belief. Once someone wants you to believe in science, it's actually scientism. (Stated as controversially as possible)
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One of the cruelest lives is that of the scientist who dies penniless and their theories ridiculed.. who turned out to be right
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it's often said as a cop out counter to philosophical or intuitive analysis, as if believing unequivocally in Science is not a dogmatic religion in itself
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It's shorthand for "I believe the best course of action is the one that is most consistent with current scientific evidence "
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For some people, sure. In my experience, it’s shorthand for “I’m on the smart-people side.”
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