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UserNamesCantBeTooLo t1_iws55hx wrote

Reply to comment by Bagelman0108 in Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986

Are you trying to say something here? If you're trying to say the scientific method doesn't work, how do you think the technology underlying the device you used to comment was invented?

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frankferri t1_iwsivsi wrote

I think on a fundamental level we don't really know? Iirc we don't understand charge on a fundamental level- we've gotten gravity, but circuits are still more engineering than science imo

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UserNamesCantBeTooLo t1_iwsxbb0 wrote

That's exactly backward. Electromagnetism is much better understood than gravity. In a way you could say we don't understand either at a fundamental level, but the way you're using that idea here is just taking the fact that there's always more to discover, and trying to enlarge it into a false narrative of exaggerated ignorance.

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frankferri t1_iwu90t5 wrote

I'm in med school, I more than most ppl really do sit on the shoulders of giants. Just trying to encourage a sense of humility as in clinical practice EBM / a mountain of rcts is more something that helps you sleep at night instead of the sword you'll die on

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