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This meme has crossed my feed in a number of places lately. I'm sharing it for debate, not for approval or agreement. If you share from my post, please leave my commentary intact. This has been a public service announcement.

is very nearly a straw man. I'm willing to concede that there are *some* people who treat like a religion, but their numbers are tiny and they have zero influence on the conduct of research AFAICT. Anti-science who come up with memes like this, OTOH, are numerous and disturbingly influential.

It's also amusing how the meme assumes is a gold standard against which other intellectual pursuits must be measured. The author assigns to the same unquestionable authority he accuses others of assigning to science.

So I'll stake my claim: scientific —in the literal sense of the study of methods—has done more to illuminate "how we know what we know" in the last couple of centuries than formal epistemology has done in millennia. If this be scientism, make the most of it.

@medigoth Considering the definition of "faith" is literally the exact opposite of the required verifiability of the scientific method(s), to me this isn't a joke, it's a non-sequitur. I read the first box as "using epistemologically unsound methods in science is epistemologically unsound." I can't disagree with it as a secondary thought, the primary being "why would anyone even say that?" Red car is of course red...

@medigoth The part about "scientific methods have limit" is kind of, I don't know how to put it, it's like it depends on time we live in. Like for example, scientific methods of 1800s had limits to what they can observe or know about the world but as the time went on, the limits are getting stretched. And this will continue to be the case for humans. We don't even know, if there's a limit yet but they already assumed, we have reached it or something like that.

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