When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.
I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it.