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Inconsistent Thinking about Science
It’s irrational to think that two conflicting claims are true, but consider these two conflicting claims made by the same persuader:
“Science changes and that’s just how science is done, so when new discoveries come in, we change.”
And here’s the conflicting claim. At the same time the same persuader believes the following:
“Science yields knowledge, and it’s idiotic to question science.”
Of course, the persuader is defining “science” as anything that the most politically powerful scientists currently are promoting as the scientific community’s position.
The first claim implies a fluid process that doesn’t get dogmatic, and the second claim implies rigid dogmatism. The first claim implies an open mind, but the second implies a closed mind. The first implies tentative knowledge, but the second implies knowledge set in stone. If we challenge the sacred cows of pseudoscience, we run into this conflict in the minds of those who defend the sacred cows.
In practice, the establishment only dogmatically defends certain sacred cows, and the most serious irrationality of pseudoscience centers on those sacred cows. When a discovery doesn’t conflict with any sacred cow, scientists are free to change scientific facts. They can change what was a scientific fact yesterday to a new scientific fact. However, when new information conflicts with a sacred cow, story-tellers scramble to make up just-so stories to rescue the sacred cow, and the sacred cow remains unfalsifiable. As we might expect, every such sacred cow supports godlessness or ungodly political goals.
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