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Who killed Mr. Boddy in the study and with what?: the great debate topic™®
Maxwell.:
2x2 is 2.
Darryl McKoy:
--- Quote from: Georges on October 11, 2015, 06:31:09 PM --- well if that's the case, it's still untrustworthy, because we don't know what we don't know.
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Trust is a completely subjective measure anyway, this is a bit of a silly question.
pch:
--- Quote from: Darryl McKoy on October 11, 2015, 06:39:08 PM ---Trust is a completely subjective measure anyway, this is a bit of a silly question.
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But we debate things like the legality of abortion and same love marriage, and those are both subjective as well
Darryl McKoy:
--- Quote from: pch on October 11, 2015, 06:44:01 PM ---But we debate things like the legality of abortion and same love marriage, and those are both subjective as well
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That's a lot more specific than asking if science is trustworthy. Science is not something you can treat as a single thing that either should or should not be 'trusted'
Plethora:
Science should not be trusted implicitly, but scrutinized carefully. How many times has it been, "We have it 100% right this time for sure." only to have that new fact be overturned in the presence of new evidence or data. Take cholesterol for example; dietary bad cholesterol is supposed to be the big factor in heart disease, but now it turns out that a big majority of bad cholesterol is produced by your body based on your genetics (not to say that diet doesn't play into heart disease) so eat all the egg yolks you want. That's not to say what science tells us can simply be discarded altogether, but you should be very guarded against founding beliefs on science that isn't extremely well established.