/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.15131002]

What are some examples of science straying away from the truth?

[Anonymous No.15131018]

>>15131002
>whittaker history of aether and electricity
Good book. Very comfy.

[Anonymous No.15131023]

>>15131002
any and every time they think they can get a penny out of lying, thats what they do.

[Anonymous No.15131198]

>>15131002
"Safe and effective"
Also entire field of psychology

[Anonymous No.15131207]

>>15131002
The whole "Race and IQ" debate.

https://quillette.com/2022/07/18/cognitive-distortions/

[Anonymous No.15131221]

Is it statistical thermal theory that is being called grotesque?

[Anonymous No.15131228]

nutrition "science"
psychiatry
psychology
virology

[Anonymous No.15131231]

>>15131221
No, it's the theory of caloric.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloric_theory

Wikipedia says that
>The "caloric theory" was superseded by the mid-19th century in favor of the mechanical theory of heat
But it omits to say caloric theory itself superseded the mechanical theory of heat, which was generally accepted before then.

So caloric supplanted the correct theory for a time.

[Anonymous No.15131236]

Thermodynamics is not a science but a simplified theory to deal with thermal machines.
Entropy isn't real, enthalpy isn't real, the laws of thermodynamics are all specifically for engines, refrigerators etc. It's all just fluid dynamics simplified.

[Anonymous No.15131248]

>>15131236
Fool that you are, you have given an explanation simplified.

[Anonymous No.15131320]

>>15131207
Interesting, at the moment not really science, but I can see how science eventually could be affected by this

[Anonymous No.15132127]

>>15131207
Lysenkoism is back on the menu.

[Anonymous No.15132131]

>>15132127
Technically it was half right with epigenetics.
I wonder what'll happen when they accept morphic fields and reincarnation?

[Anonymous No.15132146]

>>15131207
>Over the past two years, there has been a collective decision by several members of Wikipedia that “scientific racism […] has infiltrated psychometry” and that the field must no longer be trusted

[Anonymous No.15132160]

>>15132146
>Psychometry is a field where people who advocate scientific racism can push racist ideas without being constantly contradicted by the very work they’re doing.
So doesn't that mean their ideas aren't contradicted by the data and are right? One has to be very ideologically blinkered to not see the falw in their argument.

[Anonymous No.15132260]

>>15131002
creating a fake viral epidemic and then insisting everyone take an untested deadly medicine in order to prevent catching the nonexistent virus

[Anonymous No.15132272]

>>15132146
the metrics of psychology are based on stereotyping and profiling, by definition

[Anonymous No.15133486]

[Anonymous No.15133506]

>>15133486
>Throwing spaghetti at the wall has been show to increase risk of heart failure by 62%

[Anonymous No.15133578]

>>15131002
>science straying away from the truth

[Anonymous No.15134228]

>>15131023
>>15131198
>>15131207
>>15131228
>>15133486
>>15133578
That's not science. That's a distortion of science pretending to be science. Science by its very nature can never be wrong, because its based in material reality.

[Anonymous No.15134242]

>>15133486
>You can’t make this stuff up
But they did make it up. It’s a fake tweet

[Anonymous No.15134738]

>>15134242
No, its real, the ZOG media and the government buddies are legitimately trying to blame the sudden increase in heart attacks on gas stoves which have been around for over a century.

[Anonymous No.15134766]

>>15134242
Took about ten seconds to find it.
https://twitter.com/KOB4/status/1613407877187932160?s=20&t=nkPZSlvXzfg6KyPYnSG0NA
What you do hope to accomplish by making an ass out of yourself?

[Anonymous No.15135295]

>>15134242
It's an obvious joke with a level of subtlety appropriate for small children and farm animals. OTOH clueless leftists with even lower intellectual capacities than that will try to get it censored for misinformashun because they're used to reading and mindlessly believing media headlines that boldly straddle the boundary between parody and complete bullshit.

[Anonymous No.15135341]

>>15134766
Pity him, he's still dealing with he cognitive dissonance stage.

[Anonymous No.15135343]

>>15131002
Science doesn't have to be true to be effective.

[Anonymous No.15136835]

>>15131002

[Anonymous No.15136843]

>>15131002
>"the true hypothesis"

[Jealous No.15136891]

>science straying
Rudin's version (and similar) of the Archimedes property of real numbers replacing the statement of the property as it was given in Euclid's Elements.

[Anonymous No.15136956]

>>15134228
>because its based in material reality
Wrong.
Science can never be wrong because it's based on FALSIFIABILITY.
All perceived truths are one experiment away from the trash can, including material reality.

[bodhi No.15137027]

>>15134228
>Science by its very nature can never be wrong, because its based in material reality.
you are a stone cold retard and need to leave this board and never come back. the level of retard you have to be on to say something this stupid is beyond the threshold of what we can allow for you to post here

[Anonymous No.15137164]

>>15134228
>Science by its very nature can never be wrong, because its based in material reality
Science can't determine material reality retard. That's called ontology and it's in the category of metaphysics. Science talks about what matter does, not what it is. The interpretations the assign qualitative opinions about the quantitative data are philosophy.

[Anonymous No.15137168]

>>15131002
science is all disinformation, everything they teach in colleges and universities is disinformation.

[Anonymous No.15139209]

>>15131002
follow the money and you'll find plenty of examples

[Anonymous No.15139480]

>>15139209
I always wonder how the germ theory and virus questioners explain this?

[Anonymous No.15139835]

>>15131002
covid-19