• froghorse@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    To be fair, any story is just a fart in the wind. Even the sciencey ones.

    A serious investigator sees for himself.

    • 11181514@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      Sorry what “sciencey story” is a fart in the wind? Because I imagine either you don’t know what a hypothesis is or whatever example you have doesn’t actually follow the scientific method.

      • froghorse@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        The sciencey story has no intrinsic weight. In this way it is insubstantial (IE a fart in the wind). It is its reference to a real observation that lends it its weight.

          • froghorse@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            That would involve referring to the evidence. IE the observation.

            The observation is key.