I am out of that discussion. Always entertained by the fact moderating best practices protect trolls and call out those who stand up against them, but that's the nature of internet forums. Trolls can troll pretending they are funny or dense.
If you want me to quit ASR, there's no better way than protect the "belief" of someone that claims science is nothing but a bunch of people agreeing on beliefs. I also think that defeats the purpose of this website, or it should remove the "S" from the brand. Read between the lines and the troll was attacking the science aspect of this site. I apologize for coming to its defense.
Personally I’m not offended, I think it was just a communication error…
You started to participate in a point of a light and slightly comical philosophical debate, after some posts in which I was fortunately convinced by your collaegues that my thoughts were wrong and non-scientific on the question posted by the author.
So the context now seemed to be just some light comments about science, not statements against the forum or the scientific knowledge.
In a theoretical way, one thing that makes the scientific method very desirable is that no matter the person, one can ever have doubts of what is true or not, and the doubt is healthy for the method.
Is that Descartes called “methodological doubt”, so we can be free to apply it even to the method itself, as a meta analysis
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