• yetiftw@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      yes but you still have to have faith in the ability of another person to do science and not falsify evidence

        • yetiftw@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          but you can’t! are you personally able to verify the results of every scientific investigation ever performed? think about what’s currently happening in psychology. loads of old foundational studies have been found to be irreproducible. and yet people had faith that they were conducted honestly and appropriately

            • yetiftw@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              not within your lifetime though. you just have to have faith in the peer review process. also peer reviewing typically does not involve actually reproducing the results