This is the first in a series of essays on science and what makes it variably reliable. Future essays will cover measurement, experiment, theory, scientists, social structures, and institutions.
Scanned your article and, while I have no time to read it in-depth right now, it looks genuinely impressive and earnest. I came here from your Twitter and am very glad to have found you.
Just wanted to say thanks for taking the natural philosophy of science and epistemology seriously; we need more of that in the world, and I'm also on the same mission (though probably far behind you academically, just approaching it from a passionate layperson's perspective and my own lifetime of reflections and questioning).
No one said you can't comment. By "more or less" I actually meant "increasingly or decreasingly", not "approximately", but I have edited it to be more clear.
Scanned your article and, while I have no time to read it in-depth right now, it looks genuinely impressive and earnest. I came here from your Twitter and am very glad to have found you.
Just wanted to say thanks for taking the natural philosophy of science and epistemology seriously; we need more of that in the world, and I'm also on the same mission (though probably far behind you academically, just approaching it from a passionate layperson's perspective and my own lifetime of reflections and questioning).
I appreciate the support! I'd be happy to hear your feedback once you've read the piece.
"more or less" and "proven" are weak words as they appear in the text. If the author does not want me commenting all he needs to do is say so
No one said you can't comment. By "more or less" I actually meant "increasingly or decreasingly", not "approximately", but I have edited it to be more clear.