Limit the respect of science to that that is respectable

Limit the respect of science to that that is respectable
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-20/why-science-and-politics-don-t-mix.html
"If science expects to command respect, it should not only be aware of its own limits, but it also should be practiced to a high standard. Pinker seems to take for granted that it will be. He applauds the scientific temperament. The defining practices of science "are explicitly designed to circumvent the errors and sins to which scientists, being human, are vulnerable." Science is modest, you see -- intent on testing itself. Any movement that "fails to nurture opportunities for the falsification of its own beliefs" does not qualify as scientific, he says.
When it's done badly or pushes past its proper bounds yet still expects to command respect, that's scientism."


It appears some feel science can be cast in stone in support of their views. It can't.

Nor can science disprove religion. Science can only disprove theory's of science, and science can never prove anything.




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