Posted on 05/02/2021 9:38:15 AM PDT by Lenora Thompson
Now you come at me with the proof by assertion fallacy. You seem filled with logical fallacies tonight and this morning. You can assert that you are not trolling, but that puts the burden of proof upon you that you aren’t one.
I will say, though, that the scientific method is something that the government ought to rediscover and encourage through the private sector, rather than being obsessed with power over what is not their purview.
You have already openly displayed your ignorance to the process of scientific research and now are trying to utilize false arguments to save face.
You should have learned all about the 20+ false arguments in college English if you made it that far. Just more displayed ignorance is what I see.
Face it you have no clue what you are talking about.
It is always necessary - it is absolutely vital - to carefully distinguish between scientody, or the scientific method, and scientistry, which is the scientific profession. The evils described in this article are not indicative of any problems with scientody, they are the consequence of the inevitable and intrinsic flaws with scientistry.
To simply call everything "science" is to be misleading, often, but not always, in innocence. Science has no authority, and increasingly, it is an intentional and deceitful bait-and-switch, in which the overly credulous are led to believe that because an individual with certain credentials is asserting something, that statement is supported by documentary evidence gathered through the scientific method of hypothesis, experiment, and successful replication.
In most - not many, but most - cases, that is simply not the case. Even if you don't use these neologisms to describe the three aspects of science, you must learn to distinguish between them or you will repeatedly fall for this intentional bait-and-switch. In order of reliability, the three aspects of science are:
Scientody: the process
Scientage: the knowledge base
Scientistry: the profession
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