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[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago

Science is a liar... sometimes.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 years ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years ago

Stupid science bitches couldn't even make I more smarter.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago

I'm not really familiar with what you're referring to, but also, science is a philosophy. It's a method of finding truth.

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

https://xkcd.com/435/

Like this, but just to the right of the mathematician is the philosopher.

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 129 points 2 years ago
[-] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Perfection.

[-] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

I like this one

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 years ago

The nihilists should probably be represented by Black Hat...

This guy.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

This was one of the (smaller) things that put me off the idea of getting my Masters in biology. It was a very real thing in the college of science at my university.

Though it was slightly different at the top for us. Mathematicians, astrophysicists, other theoretical physicists, and experimental physicists where all top of the college, but then they sub-layered themselves in that order. In the bio department Microbiologists were the top rank. But in our case it was because the Micro department held a couple patents that brought in big money.

[-] nikita@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Its all about money at the end of the day. For instance, the uni I attended is shutting down its entomology programme while continuing to pump large amounts of money into cell bio.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My university really liked to tout its Carnegie 1 classification to bring in donor money, then instead of using that money to fund the research needed to maintain it they'd use it to pay off debts for athletics.

[-] Cornpop@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[-] anarchist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I would put philosophy in leftmost

[-] nikita@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I would loop it with math going to philosophy going to sociology (with a bunch of things in between).

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Science is just rebranded natural philosophy

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 14 points 2 years ago

Cars are just rebranded horseless carriages.

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sofas are just rebranded comfy benches

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] Alistaire@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

I'd like to update it with:

I am a fancy meat Popsicle

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Really just likes of sand. Or possibly rocks or logs.

[-] Alistaire@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

the only horse thing in a car is it's horse-power

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 2 years ago

I think it's likely a reference to this video.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

Remember, anything you "know" can be easily washed away with new information.

[-] bassad@jlai.lu 7 points 2 years ago

I know that I know nothing.

Is the motto since 2500 years, right? Right?

[-] RealPuyo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I don't know!

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Funnily enough, the fact that anything you "know" can be easily washed away with new information is an exception.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I mean unless you somehow became omnipotent.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

As a philosophy grad, I appreciate this =) But philosophy gained a heap from Science too (probably more than v..v.) , so it's all good. It strikes me as natural that Science will time to time have to engage in Philosophy when it considers its assumptions.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

2 sides, same coin.

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