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tensorlast Wednesday at 5:09 AM2 repliesview on HN

Yes, there are a lot of people who are anti-science. As in they do not believe the scientific method is a good way to find truth. There are people today who are rejecting very basic science that was accepted over a century ago.


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somenameformelast Wednesday at 5:39 AM

No, there aren't. Most people don't realize when they're being trolled by things like e.g. flat earth types. Go read one of the groups, it's a trolling meme largely turned into something by the internet + media. Thanks to social media even if let's say 0.1% of English speakers believe (or pretend to believe) something, that'd be 1.6 million people, so you can get a false impression, especially when the media takes the trolling and then amplifies it with a straight face largely to amplify these dumb and farcical divides.

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emp17344last Wednesday at 11:22 PM

Science is a great way to model reality. It’s unclear whether science accurately describes reality. It’s also unclear whether science is capable of determining metaphysical truth.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/#WhatS...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessimistic_induction