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In reply to the discussion: Either you believe in the scientific method or you don't [View all]Crunchy Frog
(26,725 posts)However, that does not mean that I uncritically accept anything that happens to come out of the scientific community or get published in a scientific journal. The fact is that there are flaws in the way in which the scientific method is carried out, and this is magnified, in medical science, by the influence of money and conflicts of interest.
Yeah, there's lots of unscientific crap out there, but some of it is coming from within the scientific community itself. I believe in approaching everything with a degree of scepticism, and I certainly can't fault people who are sceptical of big pharma.
Some people see the world in terms of absolutes and others see some degree of nuance and uncertainty. Real science takes uncertainty as a given. Absolute certainty belongs to the realm of religion.