• molave@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    Why not both?

    What’s decided to be worthy of study is subjective. The process to hypothesize, experiment, and conclude what’s being studied is objective.

    • NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.org
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      2 months ago

      Do you or have you ever worked in science? I did for a bit and that was not my impression.

      One cannot really argue that science as practiced is very effective at certain things but it is also extremely far from being objective in practice. Especially the further you stray from simple physical systems.

      Also like I never saw someone formulate a hypothesis in any sort of formal sense haha.

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 months ago

        Do you or have you ever worked in science? I did for a bit and that was not my impression.

        I imagine it depends heavily on the field. In some fields there are ideas that one can’t seriously study because they’re considered settled or can’t be studied without doing more harm than any believed good that could be achieved. There are others subject to essentially ideological capture where the barrier to publish is largely determined by how ideologically aligned you are (fields linked to an identity group have a bad habit of being about activism first and accurate observation of reality second).