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Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy
You missed the point of my post, so let me make it a little more clear for you. I'm tired of being told that we need to listen to science...the same science that is constantly changing.
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Whenever you see one of the several variations of this comment, you can be assured that the person saying it is not a practitioner of science.
All science is provisional and necessarily falsifiable. It follows a rigorous process of hypothesis, testing, analysis, and peer review and represents the best
current explanation of the natural world. As more information is learned, and as testing and analysis techniques improve, science moves forward and, in some cases, overturns the prior best explanations.
Anyone who expects scientific understanding to be immutable is confusing it with religion.
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