Looking back in time we can observe that science as a whole at any given point in history is around 90% wrong. Things that were obvious, scientifically proven facts like flat earth, earth being the center of the universe, blood letting, etc. were thought of as not only sure things, but obvious to anyone studying the sciences. Odds are 90% of the science we "know" now is completely wrong. In fact, if there is any constant in science across the ages, it's that it's mostly wrong.
>No, this time we're sure! We just happened to be born in an era where everything was figured out for the final time!
There will be naive, young people like this with no perspective, but let's ignore them. What do you guys think will be revealed to be completely misunderstood in the future? I think almost all of medicine is likely wrong, especially understanding of disease. Particle physics as well, way too much conjecture. Finally environmental sciences, we can't even figure out if people are causing the world to heat up with any degree of certainly (a very basic concept), science has almost no understanding of our own environment on a macro scale.
I would say most of the pseudosciences such as psychology or sociology are going to be reformed from point zero
Medicine will probably be reformed at one point too, but it will happen partially so
Jaxson Moore
do you think the ancient greeks hotglued their statues too
Sebastian Robinson
The whole point of "science" is to put what we think we understand to the test by experimentation and further research.
>science is mostly wrong
No, the scientific method only pushes us away from what is wrong.
Julian Rogers
Which can still be wrong no?
Christian Cox
>90% wrong >odds are 90% is still wrong >its mostly wrong bald claims. did you make them up while typing?
Joshua Baker
We all know
Brandon Russell
Science as we know it is a very recent invention.
Historical comparisons from before that point don't make much sense.
That said, i think the most likely science to go through this is physics. It just seems like there's something big missing, that might cause everything else to be reevaluated as well.
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Owen Parker
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Carson Bailey
Agreed. I had a professor explain it like this
Physics is like building a skyscraper. But the foundation was built by many different people with little communication. Nobody was even sure what the ground was like under the foundation. They keep building upward in the same way, always assuming the previous story was built properly. Soon enough it will topple over and hopefully then we will learn the lesson and build it correctly next time.
Alexander Fisher
(OP) >Things that were obvious, scientifically proven facts ...... blood letting,etc.
Actually, there's recent scientific study which indicates bloodletting may be the key to immortality. nature.com/articles/ncomms13363 At first they discovered that mice given blood transfusions from younger mice showed signs of age reversal. But this newest study shows they were wrong. There's nothing in young blood that reverses aging, but rather old blood has something in it that makes people age. In theory, blood letting would remove this "something" and reverse aging. Don't jump the gun just yet tho. More studies are needed.
To comment on the original point of this thread, information derived from science may be wrong, but the scientific method is not. It's like saying 3.14 doesn't equal Pi. Of course it doesn't equal pi and no single number ever will because pi isn't a single piece of information(number) but rather mathematical formula that derives a number. Same way the scientific method isn't a single piece of data, but a process that derives data.
Evan Sanders
>>I think almost all of medicine is wrong. >>Especially understanding of disease.
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Christian Campbell
>In theory, blood letting would remove this "something" and reverse aging. Are you serious? You're saying that donating blood slows down ageing?
Juan Morales
I also said don't jump the gun. We don't know what this something is. It could be the byproduct of aging that isn't filtered from the blood. Or it could be a byproduct of an aged body producing new blood cells. In which case bloodletting would only speed up the aging process.
If you still feel compelled to do what ever strangers on the internet tell you by all means remove all your blood and you might live forever. Be sure to report back here with the results.
Aiden Taylor
>90% wrong let me tell you something about statistics buddy..
Hunter Taylor
I agree, we have much to learn and recover.
Theoria Apophasis, you would enjoy his channel.
Michael Foster
what do you mean understanding of disease? You mean infectious disease or complex shit like cancer and dementia
Xavier Perez
>he doesn't realize that using science as a beacon is just as misguided as older people's methods Truly plebeian myopicism. Continue worshiping, kid
Grayson Gomez
What do u really mean bro?
Nathaniel Garcia
Don't get me wrong, a lot of what we know today could still be wrong or incomplete.
But the scientific method is better than older ideas on how to build knowledge.
You can really feel how butthurt Asimov is after getting BTFO by a nameless lit major. Does Asimov really need to put an anonymous letter writer's qualifications in the essay? Does he need to present himself as so much smarter and well qualified before addressing the actual issue? He's very obviously insecure in his knowledge and upset that he was called out so easily.
Kevin Wood
Bohr > Einstein
Colton Kelly
>90% wrong You're retarded.
That being said - most of "economy" is a flat-earth-propaganda right now.
