Actually, "science" is a human activity and must care about what you think. It's the universe that doesn't care about either.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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Science isn't an ontology, it's a method.
God, what no humanities does to a mf
Reminded me of this.
Scientism is the belief that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.
While the term was defined originally to mean "methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to natural scientists", some scholars, as well as political and religious leaders, have also adopted it as a pejorative term with the meaning "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities)".
Exactly. I keep trying to get people to understand that it's a process, just like running is a process.
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And a method in which beliefs are important. Not the religious ones, of course, but there are other kinds of beliefs.
Believing that science yields universally true results or is the only method of finding truths, however, is an ontology and something you have to believe.
Edit: I'm not anti-science or anything, just a pedant.
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Sadly a lot of people's beliefs don't give a fuck about science.
This feels very 2011
I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE
"facts don't care about your feelings" energy
Literally I would not be caught dead drinking from that thing
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The placebo effect would like a word.
The placebo effect works even if you know its a placebo tho.
That's medicine. Science just sees it as a problem to be sorted by good study design and statistics
Science just sees it as a problem to be sorted by good study design and statistics
And those studies are going to care about what you believe.
This is mostly shared as an arrogant statement towards laymen, but really, it's a reminder for scientists themselves
No matter what you think or believe your experiment should yield, reality check is always waiting around the corner.
Nice, when seen in this light!
Until you turn your head and stop observing, and then it reverts back to mysticism. :-P
You're referring to quantum effects? Don't worry about whether you're not watching, the universe is watching. If one photon is emitted from the thing in a quantum state and hits anything, that's the observation
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Unless it's like... Sociology, or Psychology. They care what you believe.
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Science doesn’t have an opinion on anything, it’s a process not a person.
Haha science takes more faith to believe in than my religion.
- Sent from my iPhone
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Sent from my iPhone
I guess prayer and ritual made the device possible, eh?
LOL!
Yep that's the joke, although I should probably have made it more obvious given that it's the internet and there are real people who probably post this sort of stuff sincerely.
LOL! forgot the /s..
Yaahh.. I used to go around on Reddit wth those types all the time! That is one level of ignorance I do not miss by being on lemmy..
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Science is a field of work, and its participants are able to think. But they don't care what you and me think?
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I irony being anyone who owns such mug does give a fuck what you believe.
yeah, about that...yer funding...it comes in part from some of those anti-science folk... :/
Sure does. But nature doesn't.
"Its just my opinion"
No. Science isn't about opinions. Its facts and nothing else.
If you're putting your opinion in science, its no longer science.
Science cares if your beliefs make you vote for someone who defunds research.
Needlessly antagonistic, anthropomorphises science... hmm.
science doesn't care about your feelings.
That handle is on the wrong side, unless it's for someone who is left handed.
It might be printed on both sides
I want to believe you, but as a scientist I require evidence.
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