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by whelp_24 830 days ago
I strongly agree that there is a difference between science and "science".

>Science can be trusted. Measurements and the testing and retesting can be trusted.

I still wouldn't go so far. Science doesn't provide a pure understanding of the world it produces at best a model based on observations and axioms. These both can be wrong without politics,money, or personal bias. Our senses are fallible and sometimes you measured the wrong thing with the wrong tool. You shouldn't trust science, you scrutinize it and use what you find works until it doesn't (and then publish that).