[general_re]

If we're discussing whether the sky is really blue, or just appears to be blue, then epistemology seems to be the appropriate discipline. Plenty of unemployed philosophy majors, if that's what we want our bus drivers to be doing ;)

[syriacus]

If we're discussing whether the sky is really blue, or just appears to be blue, then epistemology seems to be the appropriate discipline

Depends on your frame of reference.

Scientists know the basic principles that make the sky appear blue.

People opt to kid themselves about the current success-rate of embryonic stem cell research. Mother nature is not fooling them. They are fooling themselves.