Thankfully there are a few places on the internet where a statement about not having faith in Science is not automatically blasphemous. Everytime I see "TRUST SCIENCE" - I picture a customer for quantum healing crystals.
I have faith in religion. Science my friend stands on that other line there where everything has to be proven. That is the strength of science. If it tries to get in the religion line where I need to put faith and belief it's no longer Science.
Science is where almost nothing is proven. Most findings are mutable, preliminary and incomplete.
Engineering is where things are proven, by building things using or that are proving scientific findings. For example, Randomized Controlled Trials are one of the final engineering steps for drugs, with partial engineering step being chemistry and process chemistry. Similar steps should be done but are often omitted for social sciences.
The exception to this is pure mathematics.
Example from biology: you found some fun cellular process model description. Fine, now you have to mess with it using engineering to prove it actually works in the way you described, is not missing crucial steps and so on.
This for example happened a lot in gerontology - studies of aging. People latching on to small pieces of mechanism which actually are not very relevant or actionable.
Examples from physics are machines that use physics theories, such as quantum communication devices, particle colliders, clocks or nanostructured devices.
Examples from chemistry are evaluations of synthesis processes step by step by introducing various process changes.
Analysis is rather on the side, as without engineering first you cannot really proceed with it.
> Science is where almost nothing is proven. Most findings are mutable, preliminary and incomplete.
This may be debatable, but seems to accurately describe what most academics call "science". The more common understanding is what's described in the parent.
Often times when people say "trust the science" they're referring to results in the first category, but people take it to mean not "these results are preliminary and unproven" (and filled with asterisks), but instead "to deny this is denying empirical fact."
I have faith in religion. Science my friend stands on that other line there where everything has to be proven. That is the strength of science. If it tries to get in the religion line where I need to put faith and belief it's no longer Science.
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