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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (20 children)

The moron who made this meme did it on a computer that requires literally thousands of innovations that are a direct, replicable product of the scientific method. It is the most powerful philosophical system on the planet, despite its sloppiest practitioners, and it doesn't require the belief of fucking idiots to work.

[–] zloubida 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The scientific method is wonderful, but to call it a philosophical system is a misunderstanding on what philosophy and/or science is/are.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems likely that you have never studied either if that's your belief.

[–] zloubida 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are other arguments, but if you confuse a method and a system, you clearly don't know what you're speaking about.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Science is a hugely important subset of epistemology, the study of how we know things. Let me be blunt: you are profoundly ignorant on the history and philosophy of science. I don't expect you to thank me, but here is some reading so you can decrease your ignorance: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/

[–] zloubida 2 points 1 year ago

Your bluntness and link-dumping will not hide the fact that you make no sense. Science is not a subset of epistemology… epistemology, among other subjects, studies the links between science and truth.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Not even a good meme. It reads like every conservative mass of buzzwords they call a joke.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

There's a nuanced view to be made somewhere in here, but this ain't it. We do have a reproducibility crisis because everyone wants to do a new study instead of retesting to verify old results. And there are some worries about post hoc statistical analysis. But this meme just sounds like general skepticism about science.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, label everyone left of Bernie Sanders a "Right Winger" so you don't have to think and have interactions with people that think differently than you.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah vaccines are bullshit get me the ivermectin/s you doofus

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] BobbyBandwidth 21 points 1 year ago

It’s totally okay that you’re not smart enough to understand all the big scientific words, but you don’t have to deflect the blame.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not how science and the scientific method is working!

There are flaws in the scientific method and the peer Review. Mostly that it is done by humans.

However you should use evidence and experiments everybody can redo to base your argument on.

Also everything that is currently a fact may be disproven by the next scientific break through.

To err is human. Not changing your mind given obvious evidence is stupid.

Unfortunately we rarely have obvious evidence for sth.

[–] Rustmilian 1 points 1 year ago

Math is my god.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, COVID proved that "science" is as bought off as politicians.

We should be able to question everything, especially if push back is seen in the MSM and censorship is used to stop the counter to the mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could you give an example of that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Didn't you read the meme? He gets offended when you ask for evidence , his theories are so stupid he is the only who believes on them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, depends on what you believe.

The people I started to watch and learn from are more careful in what they belive from now on.

We know that their is a military induatrial complex, which means the more wars the better the profits.

While the pharma complex also, to a degree, has certain ways of doing things, to keep it simple.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

*edit: oops, accidentally interacted with a right-wing and possibly paid foreign disinformation account.

BLOCK

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Block everyone you don't agree with, that is a great way to learn of the real world.

That is what the working class struggle needs, more dividing between ourselves.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For fauci/the cdc:

  • The whole mask are useless lie is probably the big one.
  • There's also the immediate dismissal of lab leak theories.
  • Continuing to recommend cloth masks after studies showed they were either useless or became saturated and may exacerbate spread.

For state actions:

  • Lockdowns were never part of the recommended approach, that wasn't a scientific recommendation.
  • There were the arbitrary rules like wearing a mask in a restaurant unless you were sitting that had no science behind them.
  • There were rules like no motorized boats, but non motorized is acceptable.
  • Closing schools despite most experts citing the long term affects harming development, also little evidence that kids were at any significant risk from covid.
  • Classifying tents with walls and igloos as outdoors to avoid mask restrictions.
  • Keeping mask rules while outdoors for well after it was established there's basically 0 chance of outdoor spread for covid.

More generally:

  • The obsession with surface cleaning despite evidence for surface transmission being nearly impossible being established very early.
  • Criticizing anti mask protests for not being safe, but completely ignoring the same issue with blm protests.
  • the overwhelming save all lives at all costs advocacy, which isn't even policy in normal times.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you're a straight-up Qanon cultist, correct? Nice work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's much h easier to say that then attempt any refutation of a single argument. I must have missed the ad hominem step of the scientific method.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The correct answer was "no"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep. sad so many sheep see someone questioning the system and downvote without thinking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ you're an npc. I feel like I could write an AHK script that mimics you exactly and I'm not eveb a coder.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not. I think we need less ideas. Thinking makes me sad. Why do I need to innovate or change anything? Because capital wants it done? I was probably happier with a motorola razr than my android phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

holy crap are you being sincere? 'thinking makes me sad'??

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