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Silent3

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4. It's a matter of odds, actually

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Tue Sep 7, 2021, 06:01 AM

Sep 2021

It's not that science always gets things right, but that it gets things right more often than non-science.

If you try to out-guess the prevailing scientific view on an particular subject, especially if you have no scientific expertise yourself in the relevant field of study, you might occasionally be right when currently available science is wrong, but you'll much more often go wrong where the science is correct.

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DEADLY wrong as it turns out... [View all] Soph0571 Sep 2021 OP

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It's a matter of odds, actually Silent3 Sep 2021 #4

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