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#161: They’re Making Our Point (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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What Science Is and Is Not Science

I wanted to try a little thought exercise because I believe there's some things involved in what you were calling science that are not narrowly in the scientific method but are also not the trappings of science they're what we actually deploy right and I thought the following thought experiment would reveal it. The idea is imagine for a second that you and I were traveling by plane over a tropical forest with which we had no prior experience like Indonesia  and suppose the plane goes down we survive and nobody else doesOkay so we're now in an Indonesian forest okay we don't recognize anything from our direct experience you've never been in any forest near there right maybe there's the occasional plant that's so general that

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