Do you believe it is perfectly obvious what should count as science and what should count as 'not science'?
I don’t think there is any such thing as “perfect”.
If you learn anything from science, scientists would use words, like “perfect”, “perfection”, “perfectly”, etc. Only philosophers or theists or spiritualists would use such pointless superlative terms.
But I’ve digressed.
What shouldn’t count as “science” are those hypotheses or theories that don’t meets the requirements of sufficient quantity of evidences that can verify the premises of models or verify each other evidences.
Only when you do have sufficient verifiable observations, evidences and data, then it is “probable” that the models are true, scientifically.
That’s what Scientific Model is all about, to ensure that any presented models are objective, based on evidences and not personal desire or wants or ego.
The whole idea of rigorously testing any hypothesis or theory is verification.
Peer Review are used to ensure that the person presenting his or hers or their models are not cheating, by doctoring their test results or data.
If any model, be they be hypothesis or theory, don’t meet the requirements of -
- Falsifiability,
- Scientific Method
- and Peer Review
- then it isn’t science. It is that simple.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of different philosophies, do you think they are correct in their knowledge, logic or reasoning.
That’s the different between today’s useless philosophies and science.
- What methodology do these philosophies have that determine which are correct and which are incorrect?
- Do they have mechanisms for correcting philosophies?
- How do you know which philosophies are objective and which are biased?
Do you believe that there are no ethical questions that remain unanswered in the sciences?
I am talking about Natural Science, like Physical Science and Life Science.
Natural Science don’t deal with the questions with ethics, which I believe falls under Social Science.
Social science deal with human behaviors, human activities, human cultures, etc, so it doesn’t have to be rigorously tested like Natural Science and don’t require to follow Scientific Method specifications.
Why in the bloody hell you are bringing up ethic here?
I know that Natural Science don’t have all answers especially ones that fall under social science fields.