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by telotortium 744 days ago
They do have evidence - their own experiences! It’s not very convincing evidence, to be sure, but as the replication crisis shows, even “objective” evidence can fail to be convincing or demonstrative for various reasons.
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... The replication crisis does not - I repeat, does not - lower the standard for acceptable evidence in the sciences.
First, the replication crisis, or at least its recognition, should if anything raise the standard for acceptable evidence.

More pertinently, I am talking here on a purely social and practical level. You seem to have taken it as a moral statement.