EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something to add.

  • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I understand that this is a nice way to teach kids how science works, but if you don’t think belief factors into every single thing that humans do in science you are massively off the mark.

    Without belief or intuition, it’s just data.

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      6 months ago

      Even if belief is very present in human nature, the scientific method is not a form of belief because it is just selectionning the model that fits best the data.

      Coming up with models does not necessarily require intuition either when we can automate this process.

      Belief is human, but science is universal.