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[–] [email protected] -5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

N@zi published multiple scientific researches to justify their doings.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

While they don't refute it, enough of those do prevent better science from happening though, especially when it's needed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I need a tshirt of this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Counterexamples also refute, without necessarily being science.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't a counterexample just da tomb? Even though its only won case-a-dilla, it's still le sahyênçe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sorry, I don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'm being silly.

Isn't a counterexample just one datum? Even though its only one case, it's still science.

FTFM

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Isn’t a counter example just data, even though it’s just one case it’s still science

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Science requires systematic observation, measurement and usually variation (often experimentally controlled); and, usually, iterations.

One datapoint outside such a system is not science.

You can't even necessarily just insert a new datapoint into a pre-existing scientific sytem. The system itself may need to be adjusted, for example to test and account for biases that often occur due to how observations are made.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Not to my mind, science requires a testable hypothesis and evidence. I would argue that merely refuting someone else's hypothesis without providing a new one doesn't meet the bar of doing science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Speech-to-text set to the wrong language or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Counter examples only refute when they are publicised. When they are ignored because the status quo is preferred they achieve little

See for example low carb nutrition

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Foucalt would probably be opinionated on this.

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