• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Pedantic rant, but I hate people saying they “believe” in science. Science is not a matter of belief. It’s the realm of the empirical.

    Leave belief to religion and knowledge to science. Mixing the two turns out bad every time.

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      11 hours ago

      I think people are more talking about believing in scientific institutions to ensure credibility and good faith research. Not necessarily that an individual institution is credible, but more the scientific community as a whole can be relied on.

      Science is absolute, however the way we interpret and understand it isn’t flawless and at the end of the day some level of belief has to be put into the fallible people behind it.