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173. Naomi Oreskes — Why Trust Science?

The Michael Shermer Show

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Are We Just Looking for Evidence to Confirm What We Think?

Philosophy of science is based on the idea that we are flawed. We look for evidence to confirm what we already know or already believe, this is a very old idea. But if you could do an experiment that you think is a crucial experiment, but if it fails, then you can come up with all kinds of reasons,. some bad, but some good, about why that periment might have failed. It doesn't necessarily prove that the idea was wrong. And so pauper very famously said that the the method of scienceis falsification. That's not really true. Because, as i just said, we could do a great experiment, the experiment might fail, but it

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