There's simply not enough time to unpack all the stupid in this one
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Believing that science can tell you the truth gives rise to all sorts of flawed logic based on that misplaced belief (false axiom).
Science takes measurements of Reality (all of which are intrinsically biased, even when we try our best not to be), and then uses those measurements to create a model. Science never makes definitive statements about Reality, but probabilistic statements about our models of it.
E.g., "I'm 95% sure that in this specific little tiny part of the larger model I'm looking at, the input to output will be as I predict."
This probabilistic statement, i.e. non-definitive statement ensures that at best science can only ever get closer to a model that perfectly reflects Reality. It can never reach that point, because it never makes any definitive statements. It only gets "closer" (at best). It very often fails, it is constantly debated, and it sometimes pushes us further from the Truth, even without fraud. It is also subject to fraud, just like everything else.
All of the statements above rely on the false axiom that Science is somehow Truth. Until people understand what science is, they will continue to use it as a religion, and call it the opposite. They will justify their complete lack of understanding of what science is as "intellectual superiority".
They are the shadow speakers, telling us all about what is "really" on the cave wall.
Tried to explain exactly this to someone last year will kept pushing for peer reviewed papers
You and I are of the same mindset!
Very well explained. (I actually backed up and added the 'very').
I've been attacked for sharing 'science' with people in the context of covid cases vs. actually sick people. Eventually, I was ridiculed for thinking I was "smarter than science". I was too stunned to reply, but no reply was needed.