Why “Science” is being discussed
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I'm not an academic, and I understand by osmosis that organized science has many problems related to publishing and connected mechanisms, but I have to say there's been quite a…
by sho_hn · Sep 29, 2026
If the past 30 years have shown us anything, it's that academic credentials and reputation are very difficult to blemish. Polson is just pushing the knob to 11 because it's loud…
by readthenotes1 · Sep 29, 2026
I tried writing a simple 20 page paper with the latest Claude model over several weeks and that thing got ripped apart by legal and data science (for good reason), not going to…
by throwaway63467 · Sep 29, 2026
The fun thing about science is that it’s not hard to find science backing X claim, and one can keep going on about that, while ignoring all the science backing not X claim.
by kelipso · Sep 29, 2026
why are we lumping marijuana and gambling together? Marijuana is not zero harm, but guess what: Making it illegal is ALSO not zero harm. The drug war is an abject failure, US co…
by honkycat · Sep 29, 2026
TBH this whole left-right thing is pretty new in the US. The political science term is "ideological alignment" (we didn't really have it for a long time due to our weird party s…
by ElevenLathe · Sep 29, 2026
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Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable explanations about nature and society. It is driven by the scientific method: an empirical cycle that typically involves making observations, producing hypotheses, testing them with evidence, and drawing conclusions. Science encompasses this process and the body of knowledge it produces, which the scientific community continuously challenges, validates, and organises. Read more on Wikipedia