Critical look at zetetics

[Exnihiloest]

Because zetetics, by rational thought and the art of doubt applied even more pragmatically than by the scientific method, can easily dismantle the idle assertions of obscurantism and the paranormal.

But also the denials of climatosceptics

Precisely, the art of doubt and the exercise of reason can lead to a dissenting opinion from that of the majority. While the follower of conspiracy theories will see everywhere and the obscurantist will systematically take the support of his science infuses a selection bias, the zetetician will generally be of the opinion of scientific consensus. But a scientific consensus is not an absolute truth, as we have seen in the past, and the zetetician can sometimes be of a divergent opinion, for detailed reasons that he is able to explain.

If it were enough, as you seem to think, to be always of the opinion of the majority to be right, or like our obscurantist, of an opinion systematically contrary to the alleged scientific consensus that society presents, we would no longer need of discernment by the use of reason. Everything is in the nuance and each particular case must be treated according to its specificities.

[Janic]

bravo, bravo! You just have to apply it to yourself!

[Exnihiloest]

bravo, bravo! You just have to apply it to yourself!

It's been done for a long time.
I will not ask you the same effort of course, it would be cruel, I am aware of the limits of each.

[Janic]

by Exnihiloest »15/03/19, 19:52 PM

Janic wrote:
bravo, bravo! You just have to apply it to yourself!

It's been done for a long time.
I will not ask you the same effort of course, it would be cruel, I am aware of the limits of each.

So you are still deluding yourself about your own abilities "I am aware of the limits of each"

[izentrop]

Franck Ramus explains very well the scientism

[Janic]

Franck Ramus explains scientism very well

good analysis which then suffices to apply to everything that claims to be scientific like AFIS

[izentrop]

I hope for you the day or you will pass the stage of "it is who says who is there"

[Janic]

I hope for you the day or you will pass the stage of "it is who says who is there"

start with you!

[izentrop]

Here it stops with insults, but for an honest journalist, it is difficult and dangerous to dismantle the "fake news" and pseudo-sciences of all kinds.

On social networks, the voluntary deletion of the MedicusFR Twitter account has marked a turning point in recent weeks. In the middle of a controversy over hydroxychloroquine, its author suffered a rain of insults and threats from "proRaoults". Tired, he threw in the towel when he was one of the most active in raising, with many reliable sources and explanations, the methodological problems of the studies carried out in Marseille by Didier Raoult. He may have been the victim of a so-called raid on social media, a coordinated attack aimed at submerging a hate message account. https://www.ouest-france.fr/sciences/su ... ws-6883060

Other link https://www.ouest-france.fr/sciences/ho ... es-6882839

[GuyGadebois]

Here it stops with insults, but for an honest journalist, it is difficult and dangerous to dismantle the "fake news" and pseudo-sciences of all kinds.

The sectarians attack the sectarians, each believing they have the truth. It is good to reframe these pretentious Nazetetics who take themselves for what they are not. Strongly that Mr. Sam and the other puppets (including the other masked asshole, I don't know his name anymore) disappear in their turn. No one needs these followers of Brich or Broch.