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Why do so many scientists tend to be utterly dogmatic when new research challenges their fundamental assumptions? Their close mindedness terrifies me because t
by archhn 4y ago
Why do so many scientists tend to be utterly dogmatic when new research challenges their fundamental assumptions?
Their close mindedness terrifies me because they are increasingly relied on in decision making -- like vaccines, for example. I thought science is centered around an admission of infinite ignorance? At any moment we can be made aware of new information that completely changes our understanding of the world because the truth is not hardwired into us. They are more and more looking like a clergy caste for the post-God state.
- ncmncm 4y agoAs Max Planck said, science advances one funeral at a time. Each one had to wait for a previous generation to die to cement their own advance.
- archhn 4y agoIncidentally, I remember young Kirkegaard writing that he didn't want to pursue science because each scientist is like a corpse that just fecundates the soil of science for the next generation--paraphrasing. That's why he went into the study of eternal things.