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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1378236)	10/29/2022 6:22:20 PM
From: golfer72	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578574

Real science welcomes dissent and questions and challenges to its conclusions. Junk science is agenda driven and resists and tries to suppress same. Oh its a conspiracy, its misinformation blah blah blah. There ya go.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1378236)	10/29/2022 7:03:37 PM
From: golfer72	1 Recommendation Recommended By PKRBKR Respond to of 1578574

Quote from Scientific American : As a historian of science, I would argue that it’s the responsibility of scientists and historians of science to show that the real power of science lies precisely in what is often perceived as its weakness: its drive to question and challenge a hypothesis. Indeed, the scientific approach requires changing our understanding of the natural world whenever new evidence emerges from either experimentation or observation. Scientific findings are hypotheses that encompass the state of knowledge at a given moment. In the long run, many of are challenged and even overturned. Doubt might be troubling, but it impels us towards a better understanding; certainties, as reassuring as they may seem, in fact undermine the scientific process...