Don’t read just the title.
The fact that science is continually updating itself is the reason to trust it. Science doesn’t rest on its laurels. It doesn’t say “Well, solved that one! Don’t ever have to think about that again!”
Science is continually re-evaluating itself in light of new information, discarding conclusions that are no longer supported by evidence, and making new ones based on new understandings of the elements involved.
Yeah, that seems to be the article’s thesis, just a misleading title.
What I’m proposing is neither global pessimism nor naïve faith. It’s local skepticism, or disciplined trust, which is precisely what science needs to improve itself. The history of science is indeed a graveyard of theories, but the fact that science keeps changing is a mark of its strength. It keeps changing because the world is complex and full of wonder. That isn’t a problem; it’s the engine that drives scientific progress
Misleading af title
What a stupid take
You didn’t read the article.
Yeah, you don’t engage with stupid rage bait garbage.
You literally engaged by commenting.
With whom did I engage? Not the NY Times.
Yep. This is exactly the kind of take that got the US to where it is now. This is the exact sort of thing you’d hear one of those people say.
lot of people voting and commenting that didn’t read the article.
I assumed based on the subtext requesting we read the article that the contents of said article said that we should trust it because it’s constantly changing and challenging itself.
However I think some people might be inclined to downvote specifically because this kind of headline is basically clickbait. I’m not sure they’re wrong in doing so.
It isn’t just the shit headline getting downvotes. The ny times is also garbage.
Downvote for the ragebait title
