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  • Don’t worry, I do. The problem here is that there are two different definitions of truth. Scientific Truth/Fact is what we are left with after we rule out what is not true.

    Science doesn’t make declarative statements about what is true in any ultimate sense. But when we talk about truth in science, we’re referring to the scientific consensus.

    When we use the scientific method, we deduce facts about reality, then use those facts to infer “truth”. Of course, science is often wrong, and we discover when truth is wrong in the second half of the process.


  • Actually, yes.

    Journal Impact Factor (JIF), is a very important part of establishing credibility.

    Reputable journals are very selective about what they publish. They’re worried about their JIF.

    If you get published in a journal with a high JIF, you can be as close to possible as establishing a foundation of fact, as their articles have a high chance of being both reproducible and accurate.

    If there was a casino that took bets for which scientific discoveries would be true ten years from now, I would make money all decade long by betting on high ranking JIF articles.





  • It was a game for PC around the year 2000, I don’t even know the name of it. I’ve been searching for it for years. It’s a point and click adventure game.

    The premise is your spaceship breaks down on an alien planet. If you try to repair the ship immediately a giant alien spider will come and kill you.

    After searching for a while you end up making friends with one of the aliens and sneak around one of the villages looking for parts.

    I never made it past that point.

    I highly doubt anyone will know what this is, I’ve tried multiple times on that reddit sub for games people can’t remember.


  • Nope, but that sounds like psychiatric malfeasance.

    I’m sure nobody denies there are bad psychiatrists, but what you’re saying sounds more like an argument for better practice’s in psychiatry (which happen constantly), as opposed to the claim you had initially, which was about psychiatrists over diagnosing people with a mental illness.

    On a related note: The frequency of ADHD diagnoses has risen drastically over the last few decades.

    Someone may interpret this to mean psychiatrists are over diagnosing.

    Another interpretation is more people are becoming ADHD.

    But the medical consensus is that the public understanding of what ADHD is has improved. It is no longer understood as “little boys with too much energy”, and so, more people seek help.

    It’s shameful that misdiagnoses happen, and I’m sorry that happened to you.







  • I know they aren’t, I’m saying their claim is that they are.

    It’s even common to claim everything God does is just and right. If gay people get killed in a nightclub, it’s because they’ve sinned, and that’s Gods will, therefore, the gunman was doing the right thing.

    Then you get the people with cognitive dissonance who claim that slavery was moral because God stipulated rules about how the slaves should be treated and “it was a different time”.

    Then you get the people who turn themselves into bombs and believe mass murder is right, and the people that died should thank them, because the psycho took their victims to heaven with them.

    Then you get the people who vote against abortion rights because they believe the most ethical thing to do is save babies, even if it risks the mothers life, or guarantees poor life quality (either from poverty or developmental issues).

    It’s ALL a moral claim. When your moral foundation is God, nothing you can do in service of what that God supposedly says can be wrong.