Science - The only truth -

What is science?

But first, I think it’s important to explain what science is and is not. Science is the pursuit of facts through experimentation, observation, and – often – statistics. Science can never be sure that it is perfect, but every advance is progress towards perfection. Perfection is the target, an infinite distance away.

What is science not?

It is important to note that science is not a belief system. There is no faith required to accept science, unless by ‘faith’ you mean you need to believe there is a truth to the universe. Or unless you don’t believe mathematics is true.

Can you trust what scientists say?

Any individual scientist might not be trustworthy, but after a paper has been peer-reviewed, replicated, and built upon with new knowledge, you can trust the scientific result. In the early days of, for example, climate science, there was a larger doubt than there is today about the implications, the causes, and what we could do about it.

So, why science?

So the reason why we should do and trust science, is that there is no other known way of establishing truth. If something is unknown, the scientific method is the only process we know to know it. And until science is applied to a problem, we don’t really know it. There is a LOT that we don’t actually know, and if there wasn’t, there would be nothing for scientists to do! SearchSearch