About a year ago William Briggs gave this excellent and comparatively non-technical talk on the problems of modern science. Just over an hour long, but Briggs is a fluent and entertaining speaker who certainly manages to explain why modern science and scientists can be so abjectly unreliable.
Saturday 23 March 2024
Broken Science
About a year ago William Briggs gave this excellent and comparatively non-technical talk on the problems of modern science. Just over an hour long, but Briggs is a fluent and entertaining speaker who certainly manages to explain why modern science and scientists can be so abjectly unreliable.
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Watched this with amusement. I liked that he shared my belief in free will. He referred to Sabine Hossenfelder early in his talk, but didn't mention she is a proponent of the very thing he was criticizing viz that science proves determinism and therefore excludes free will, (whilst simultaneously ignoring her own point about the concept of 'emergent properties'!
Nice to see a learned 'expert' who thinks the same way as I do over the scientific method and human behaviour, for a change.
Tammly - I'm wary of Sabine Hossenfelder, she seems to be susceptible to ideas which can't be valid such as determinism excluding free will. We may be limited in our freedom to act, but Briggs is right on this and she is making theory superior to observation.
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