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To: sasquatch

Science doesn’t establish truth by voting. It evaluates teh consistency and quality of experimental data and also the degree that theory is the best fit to that data. The evaluationn of this is open to anyone who can read, think, speak and write. Of course you have to convince others of the soundness of your views - e.g. the experiment was bad because... or the data is anomalous because.... or that theory does not fit this data or a theory that better fits the data is...


5 posted on 01/06/2023 9:48:11 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

The dirty little secret about science is that almost every scientific “fact” turns out to be wrong (or mostly wrong) a couple of hundred years later.

That is the same track record as witch doctors!


14 posted on 01/06/2023 10:29:35 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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