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		hammock on Jan 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How trust undermines science Assuming your premise is true, is a strongly held belief a prerequisite to conduct a scientific inquiry? Or couldn't it just be any hypothesis, however crazy? It seems to me you are imposing a constraint that doesn't need to be there, and parent is arguing it doesn't deserve to be there, either.

nitwit005 on Jan 23, 2022 [–]

The assertion I was responding to was not about the general possibility of using science to test these ideas.

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