Astrology on the same hand I’m not so sure about. I’m not so sure about anything, because being so sure is brain rot at best and narcissism at worst.
“Scientific consensus is absolute truth” is the antithesis of science. Truth is fundamentally unknowable. Science is absolutely by far the best method we have for approximating truth, but it can only ever be an approximation. An extremely consistent, useful, and accurate approximation of course, good enough to make important decisions with. But it is epistemologically ridiculous to declare absolute truth.
Once you start letting that kind of absolutism in, you’re lost. That’s why scientific papers don’t say “we proved that X causes Y”, they say “we observed a strong correlation between the presence of X and the result Y”.
That’s the brain rot I’m talking about. You are conflating overwhelming consensus with absolutes. If everyone believed as you, we’d still believe in alchemy and humors. Absolute certainty is the greatest conceit. These “truths” and “facts” you speak of are only such in the colloquial sense. It is imperative that a serious scientist remembers that. Brush up your epistemology.
Astrology on the same hand I’m not so sure about. I’m not so sure about anything, because being so sure is brain rot at best and narcissism at worst.
“Scientific consensus is absolute truth” is the antithesis of science. Truth is fundamentally unknowable. Science is absolutely by far the best method we have for approximating truth, but it can only ever be an approximation. An extremely consistent, useful, and accurate approximation of course, good enough to make important decisions with. But it is epistemologically ridiculous to declare absolute truth.
Once you start letting that kind of absolutism in, you’re lost. That’s why scientific papers don’t say “we proved that X causes Y”, they say “we observed a strong correlation between the presence of X and the result Y”.
Honestly, that is truth. The word truth has been bastardized by common use, but in science a theory is truth.
And there are also established facts in science, you keep forgetting about those.
That’s the brain rot I’m talking about. You are conflating overwhelming consensus with absolutes. If everyone believed as you, we’d still believe in alchemy and humors. Absolute certainty is the greatest conceit. These “truths” and “facts” you speak of are only such in the colloquial sense. It is imperative that a serious scientist remembers that. Brush up your epistemology.