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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

When people say they “believe” in science, I think they mean they are putting their faith into the scientists performing the science. That whatever conclusion they come to after an experiment or study is the correct conclusion.

That's literally what they mean, where "scientists" may as easily mean real scientists as charlatans.

It's still completely antagonistic to how science is practiced (if scientists behaved like that, they would never learn anything), and something closer to religion than science.

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