[–] beerbajay 10y ago ↗ What a awful, sloppy article.> Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubtNo, being a scientist requires identifying uncertainty, investigating mystery, and doubting results until they are sufficiently repeated.> scientism: the notion that science has exclusive access to the truthYou can of course discover/reveal "truths" (facts!) without the science but these can be tested/confirmed via the scientific method.> dismissingly brands Shakespeare and Chekhov as without intellectual valueThis is a seriously disingenuous attack on the unnamed researcher who almost certainly isn't counting the humanities amongst his targets.> Science wouldn’t appear so harshly incompatible with spirituality.Ah! The hidden agenda, finally.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 9.8 ms ] thread> Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt
No, being a scientist requires identifying uncertainty, investigating mystery, and doubting results until they are sufficiently repeated.
> scientism: the notion that science has exclusive access to the truth
You can of course discover/reveal "truths" (facts!) without the science but these can be tested/confirmed via the scientific method.
> dismissingly brands Shakespeare and Chekhov as without intellectual value
This is a seriously disingenuous attack on the unnamed researcher who almost certainly isn't counting the humanities amongst his targets.
> Science wouldn’t appear so harshly incompatible with spirituality.
Ah! The hidden agenda, finally.