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Flat Earth is Science now? Peer-review is dying.

questfortruth

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We don't. I don't care what kind of fake news sites claim differently.
Here in America the government is dominated by the rich and the Christian.
The people are possessed by evil spirits: modernism, post-modernism. Modernism goal - to destroy the last theist. Post-modernism: to murder the last human. Today the post-modernism is more actual. Therefore, they say: post-Christian era.
 

columbus

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The people are possessed by evil spirits: modernism, post-modernism. Modernism goal - to destroy the last theist. Post-modernism: to murder the last human. Today the post-modernism is more actual. Therefore, they say: post-Christian era.
This makes less sense than your opinions about science, but :shrug:.

It sounds like the sort of thing I expect from Christians, I'm pleasantly surprised when they're more reasonable.

Tom
 

David1967

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
The Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder has seriously studied the Flat Earth idea and found, that it is wrong, but not unscientific. Thus, soon it will be correct and scientific. When is your estimate when there peer-review papers of Flat-Earth will start?


More about problems of peer-review:
Middle Ages God under scrutiny of XX century peers. Can peer-review be too peer?
Peer-review is good but corrupt and dying.

Please check for Flat Earth the arXiv.

I think that in the realm of science it should be a Psychological study.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
The Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder has seriously studied the Flat Earth idea and found, that it is wrong, but not unscientific. Thus, soon it will be correct and scientific. When is your estimate when there peer-review papers of Flat-Earth will start?


More about problems of peer-review:
Middle Ages God under scrutiny of XX century peers. Can peer-review be too peer?
Peer-review is good but corrupt and dying.

Please check for Flat Earth the arXiv.
You've missed Sabine's point. (Quelle surprise:D).

The video is quite interesting, about the philosophy of science and where Flat Earthers go off-track. To summarise, what she says is that Flat Earthers represent an inappropriately extreme, self-defeating version of scientific scepticism.

What they insist on is relying only on the evidence they have collected for themselves as individuals. Since they can't see the roundness of the Earth for themselves, they decide to reject it, philosophically. They refuse to take on trust any of the findings of humanity before them. So, as it would take each individual member of the Flat Earth society thousands of years, and a huge intellect, to work out themselves everything known to modern science, their refusal traps them in the Bronze Age!

Her point is that science is a collective effort, that relies on taking on trust those findings of science that have been well enough established by society, in order to build further on the structure. Of course there is always room to doubt some elements of that structure, since nothing is proved in science, but you have to take a lot on trust or you cannot get anywhere.

She further points out that this taking on trust is something we all do, all the time, in everyday life, since otherwise we could not function in the world. She gives the example of buying a tin of soup. This involves us trusting the supermarket, the canner, the words on the label and the government food regulations in our country, that the stuff inside is good to eat.

So the pose adopted by the Flat Earthers is a silly and inconsistent one, - perhaps even hypocritical. But the problem is not really that they are taking an unscientific approach. What they are rejecting is something deeper than that, which underpins the whole of human civilisation: preparedness to trust and learn from our predecessors.

P.S. In fact, it has just occurred to me that this Flat Earth approach is exactly the one taken, towards religion, by extreme Protestant biblical literalists.:D
 
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questfortruth

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They refuse to take on trust any of the findings of humanity before them.
But Freidism, Marxism, Communism, Evolutionism, Nacism, Fashism, Satanism, Atheism are wrong. Perhaps even the round Earth Cosmology with its Big Bang is wrong as well. Google: crisis in cosmology.
 
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