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Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life (www.popularmechanics.com)

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[–] Butterbee@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The title is also weirdly phrased to make it sound like science was wrong. Of course science was wrong. The whole process is based on realizing that our past assumptions were wrong. Every time scientists discover something new, it replaces an old incorrect assumption. These sorts of titles are how you get to the "Mainstream media/science is bogus" track.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

The whole process is based on realizing that our past assumptions were wrong.

Well... or simply improving the understanding. AFAIK good science doesn't actually assert "rightness" or "wrongness;" rather, it proposes 'this theory seems the best working fit,' with the understanding and open-endedness that it can always be improved, tweaked, or even completely replaced by a better theory.