Nobody’s honest. Scientists are not honest. And people usually believe that they are. That makes it worse. By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.
Doubt is clearly a value in the sciences. Whether it is in other fields is an open question and an uncertain matter.” “…it is very important to doubt and that doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of very great value.
All other aspects and characteristics of science can be understood directly when we understand that observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea.
The National Institute of Health describes anxiety as a pathology, a mental state of exaggerated fear “in which hyperexcitability … is expressed as hypervigilance and increased behavioral responsivity to fearful stimuli.” Some people seem to have a pathological need to be frightened, especially by the “fearful stimuli” of “global warming,” “climate change,” “extreme weather” (or substitute the […]
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