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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (72305)5/19/2018 2:00:07 PM
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"Do you have any idea how often near unanimous “science” turns out to be wrong? "
Anyone making such an argument is ignorant of what science is about."

Yes, you are. We even have names for your technique:

Science was wrong before - RationalWiki
The phrase " science was wrong before" (or variations thereof, such as "science has been wrong in the past", "science is only human", or "science is not infallible") is a technique used in order to reject scientific consensus, especially on evolution and global warming. It usually works like this:


“”Alice: A scientific consensus has built around theory X and it is supported by many lines of robust evidence.
Bob: Ah, but science has been wrong before.
The "science was wrong before" gambit is an example of both the continuum fallacy and the nirvana fallacy.
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