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0 pointsmarcosdumay10y ago0 comments

Not contradictory. But yes, for some definitions of the scientific method, open-mindness is a different concept that does not take part in it. I'd just like to point that those definitions do not work. Being open minded is a requirement for creating good science, as much as checking one's hypothesis with experiments.

About that "contradiction" word, do not confuse "inability to measure something" with "measuring something and detecting it's not there". Those are too completely different situations, yet many people act like they were the same.

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msandford10y ago

> About that "contradiction" word, do not confuse "inability to measure something" with "measuring something and detecting it's not there". Those are too completely different situations, yet many people act like they were the same.

I'm reminded of Semmelweis who figured out an empirical germ theory and beat Pasteur to it by about a decade. Thanks to doctors who "knew" better, he ended up dying in disgrace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

That's not to say I'm anti-doctor, anti-medicine or anything like that. But I am anti-arrogance, especially when people's lives might hang in the balance.

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