Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (2017)
I think this is kind of a reductive, attention-grabbing headline. The real intention is &quot;stop equating &#x27;the scientific process&#x27; with &#x27;the entire body of knowledge that has ever been produced by people calling themselves scientists&#x27;&quot;.<p>The <i>body of knowledge produced by scientists</i> includes real truths, but also a lot of work produced by people without good methodology, and a lot of things that were <i>thought to be</i> correct at the time but were later disproved. And as the author mentioned, none of this is exempt from whatever society-level base assumptions were thought to be indisputable at the time.<p>For all that, the <i>scientific process</i>, while imperfect in many ways, is still the best way the human race has so far discovered to learn and advance. You could say that the <i>pursuit</i> of science is, by definition, the <i>pursuit</i> of truth.