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9803468 No.9803468 [Reply] [Original]

It's only worth being a scientist in circumstances of revolution. Operating under the conservative assumptions of normal science, scientists are nothing but monkeys running the script in different settings and obtaining mostly predictable results. It's intellectualized menial labor.

Prove me wrong.

>> No.9803502

>>9803468
Define "scientist". Is a mathematician a scientist? Where is the Kuhnian revolution in mathematics?

>> No.9803505

>>9803468
This is why speculative and theoretical scientists and sciences are just as important as skeptics, because if all the scientists are skeptics, then there will be no progress or even challenge to the dogmatic beliefs of science, every year more "set in stone". If you don't challenge your worldview regularly, are you even a scientist?

>> No.9803809

>>9803502
>Is a mathematician a scientist?
No, because mathematicians do not use the scientific method.

>> No.9804130

>>9803468
Depends on the paradigm that you hold as a scientist. If you belong to the school of thought of "shut up and calculate!" your definition might hold true, however it's to be reminded that a lot of scientists were also readers of philosophy and literature.
I hold engineering to be intellectualized menial labour, rather.