/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15562292

>>14871395
mfw the church was right

>>12798151
>Scientific method comes from Galileo
>fails to provide replicability, as he owns the sole telescope in the world
Nothing personal, kid

>>11918819
>Why do so many people think science is an opinion or political belief these days?
Technocracy has become a part of the dominant neoliberal ideology making the state more authoritarian and science weaker. The state has become unresponsive to common people and so people have lost faith in institutions and will cling to alternative forms of epistemology that validate their beliefs.
>How do we fix this?
It's simple. Separation of science and state.

>>11891174
>Growing up is realizing Popper is wrong.
Was Feyerabend right?

You don't think that philosophy of science is a meme, do you anon?

Why don't you study philosophy? How can you understand the principles that underlie mathematics and science without a expert understanding of philosophy, especially logic and epistemology?

>>10203166
>>10203181
>looks with disapproval

>>9640489
>Having more than five fingers would be a mutation, as would being born with no hands

based on what? what is the criteria to differ mutations from vestigiality?

"The withdrawal of philosophy into a "professional" shell of its own has had disastrous consequences. The younger generation of physicists, the Feynmans, the Schwingers, etc., may be very bright; they may be more intelligent than their predecessors, than Bohr, Einstein, Schrödinger, Boltzmann, Mach and so on. But they are uncivilized savages, they lack in philosophical depth – and this is the fault of the very same idea of professionalism which you are now defending."

-Paul Feyerbrand

>>8213785
Very true, anon. Science is whatever we want to believe science is.

Sup /sci/
I've been hanging out on our new /his/ board a lot the last week. I've seen this guy posted, and a lot of talk about how the scientific method is itself an ideology and not to necessarily be trusted.
Seems like bull to me, but what does everyone else thing.

>>6953847
>Science is neutral and exists separate from its social context.

>Scientific theories are representations of objective truth and not imperfect social constructs.

>There is no knowledge outside science. the Western scientific method is objectively the best ever way to obtain knowledge. Regardless of whether much of modern science came from other sources. eg. newton and galileo based much of their work on alchemical and hermetic texts.

>'Scientific knowledge' represents reality. Instead of being a series of linguistic constructs severely constrained by our limited perception and cognition, as well as by cultural factors.

>the scientific method is not arbitrary or untestable by its own standards.