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[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Science isn't a belief, it's a method.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Eh, IMO it's more like four methods stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 11 points 6 days ago

Still the best trench coat we currently have.

All the other methods are wearing Borat strings and slinging poop at each other.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is true. We might think that science and tech advanced slowly and steadily, and while that is technically true in some sense, as a general rule science advanced in exponential levels. Like the 2nd industrial revolution of the late 19th century saw such a massive explosion in tech that it created a change that could only be compared to the agricultural revolution.

And let's not get started on the 20th century. Going from first heavier than air flight to landing on the moon in 66 years? Yeah that cannot be overstated.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Still fucks with me that someone could have written an essay about the impossibility of heavier than air flight at the age of 20, and lived to see the moon landing. That's like growing up believing the earth to be the center of the universe, and then living to see the discovery of other galaxies. It would be like growing up a hunter-gatherer and buying a pizza in a grocery store

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

funny thing is that there are a pretty decent amount of hunter-gatherers who wear tshirts and shit, honestly seems like an amazing lifestyle.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You know, before Trump and the rise of neo-nazism into the mainstream I used to be huge into interwar media (early talkies, silent films, radio, etc) and one thing I found was a sci-fi radio show (I am not sure if it was Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon or something else) that seemed to treat the very concept of making into space in the 20th century as an impossible feat.

But a little over 20 years after that broadcast Sputnik happened. So many listeners and writers of the time absolutely were eating their own words afterward.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

To be fair, Newton was suggesting the feasibility of using chemical propellants to create stable ballistic orbits in space as far back as the 1600s with his cannonball example.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So long as you don't use it to spout off some bullshit like electric universe is some pseudo-philisophical bullshit masquerading as science I agree. Sorry of the madness I was watching professor Dave and my mind is mush.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

All science is influenced by the current academic landscape and researchers' funding sources. Now let's discuss my new theory that gravity isn't real. First, we have to understand that 1x1=2...

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I mean, how technical do you want to get? Because gravity isn't a real force, assuming Einstein is to be believed.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If you think you have a better method then scientists would love to adopt it. If not, you don't qualify to be my friend or lover, I don't even associate with anti-science types.

Science is heavily resistant to partiality and the negative aspects of societal contexts.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Understand that science is a name given to both a method, and to a mostly self-consistent body of models that can be used to make useful predictions. Science doesn't get things wrong. Science gets iterated upon.

[–] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Good science doesn't get things wrong. Bad science gets things wrong all the time. No scientist is immune to implicit bias and implicit bias is frequently the cause of bad science.

eGFR estimation errors in African Americans is a prime example of that.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I hate their stage names. Baby, Sporty, Posh? Why tf didn't they use actual spice names? Ginger was already there. Why others weren't called Cinnamon, Pepper, Clove, and Nutmeg? Fucking Brits. 😤😡🤬

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Imagine the Brits actually using spice

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah! It's not like tikka masala exists or is the most popular British dish or anything.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Tikka masala being the best British dish will never be not funny

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

it's that class of "immigrant took their native cuisine and retooled it to make drunk locals do that cartoon thing where they smell a visible trail of scent and start floating towards the source, whereupon they hand over their entire wallet in return for delicious food"

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Definitely. But the sentiment these days are that the immigrants are natives. So therefore the food that is made is native too, by extending the logic.

There comes a time where the imported variant becomes more popular than the original. Just look at the italians and pasta.

The Americans rightly claim a lot of food that was made similar elsewhere, but garnered popularity in the us. Hamburg-er is a perfect example. They also "claim" food that might not necessarily be considered American by everyone, like pizza.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nope! Invented by Bangladeshi/brits in England. Its plenty inspired by butter chicken, but made completely differently with British ingredients.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Ahh cool. Kinda how Hawaiian pizza is Canadian

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Scary was the worst stage name. It really hasn't aged well

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

The producer of this track.

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