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What a nerve to say: “Well Science doesn’t know everything”

Science knows it doesn’t know everything. Otherwise it would stop.

Really, it takes a comedian to drive home a point about science much better than any of us could. I feel often that we are nutheads who would pin our hopes on alternative medicines and spirituality and prayer and other woo-woo, instead of relying on evidence-based science.

Yes, science doesn’t know everything. We know that and scientists are forever trying to push that boundary of what is known further. In fact, its a blessing that we know what exactly is unknown.

I have tried to transcribe a few more quotes from the video below:

• There is kind of a notion that “every opinion is equally valid.” My arse.
• Horse-shit-path (audience laughter). And I am sorry if you are into homeopathy. Its water (audience laughter).
• Science knows it doesn’t know everything. Otherwise it would stop (laughter and applause). Just because science doesn’t know everything doesn’t mean that you can fill in those gaps with any fairytale that appeals to you.
• Herbal medicine is around for thousand years. Indeed it has. And then we tested it all. And the stuff that worked became medicine (audience laughter). And the rest of it is just a bowl of soup and some potpourri (audience laughter).

(via Bad Astronomer)

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