-- John On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:46 PM, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
Dang Global Scientific Marketers just can't decide which terms to even use - that sure gave me confidence in their certinty!
Har har! Dang ol science it must be a CONSPIRACY yeah that's it!! What has science ever done anyway?
Fucking ridiculous.
Assertion != fact.
Scientific theory != fact.
Even, solid mathematical model != fact.
"Science" as some of us prefer to use the term, is where facts, actual measurable testable facts, are determinable by testing and verifiable by someone else running the same test and making the same measurement, resulting in taking/ measuring the same value (same result), thus verifying said fact as a fact, a value, a measurement, and more than merely assumption arising from some scientific theory.
Perhaps someone else can try to explain this in a clearer way? Perhaps it's a difficult thing to express clearly in English..
It's not difficult at all, you can play semantic games all day long. If you want to get down to absolutes NOTHING is a fact... I choose to put my faith in what seems to be the most obvious truth, based on a preponderance of scientific evidence. Anyone who chooses otherwise, particularly with important shit like this, just doesn't give a fuck or just doesn't get it, IMO. John