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Science's Epic Fails

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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We Don't Teach Uncertainty

We would all rather have the comforting lie than the cold, ugly truth. It's easier to appeal to people's feelings than it is to ask people to consider facts. The true mark of a good scientist is one that changes his or her mind. We don't teach uncertainty in school and we don't teach how we know. And the science, it is inherent to science. As the finemen quote that bryme as reading at the beginning, that we we have doubt, and we have the ability to change our minds. Well, don wel, i almost said it. Miins yote sames, i do see it onras as y, but we don’t

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