When people say they “believe” in science, I think they mean they are putting their faith into the scientists performing the science. That whatever conclusion they come to after an experiment or study is the correct conclusion.

That’s literally what they mean, where “scientists” may as easily mean real scientists as charlatans.

It’s still completely antagonistic to how science is practiced (if scientists behaved like that, they would never learn anything), and something closer to religion than science.

That’s a conversation I’ve had more than once with my parents:

– Doing X is fine! Everybody did it in my time and we grew up just fine!

– Didn’t that friend of yours die because of it?

– Yeah, but he’s only a single person, and everybody did X…

Nah, remember that Australia is “western”, Chile is not… I’m pretty sure Ukraine doesn’t qualify.

US people have a great handling of geography.

Some people insist there’s no “correct” order for the basic arithmetic operations. And worse, some people insist the correct order is parenthesis first, then left to right.

Both of those sets of people are wrong.

I hereby propose we make a workforce to rename all the stuff named after Euler.

It’s just horrible. What’s the difference between Euler’s relation and Euler’s ratio? What about Euler’s rule and Euler’s method? Do all of those only name a single thing? Who knows? Why does Google just replace half of them by their preferred Euler named stuff? Who knows?

Also, it’s bothering me that it’s not immediate.

If he was going to be wooshed, he could at least get the details right…