Whenever someone starts yapping about "facts" and "biology," or how science has "proved" something, 97% of the time
- they don't know anything about how science works
- they have utterly no interest in what a fact is
- they slept through high school biology
- they're about to spew some bigoted nonsense
CHANGE MY MIND.
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[citation needed]
That's my favorite comment to make over on Twitter when someone starts talking this crap.
I was talking about hypotheses and experiments to my 11 year old today! He said the word "prove" and I cringed and explained proof by counterexample, and then we used bird nesting habits as a case in why "always" is so hard to demonstrate.
(The citation is all of Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, and all of my discrete mathematics/ formal logic college math course!)
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