The moron who made this meme did it on a computer that requires literally thousands of innovations that are a direct, replicable product of the scientific method. It is the most powerful philosophical system on the planet, despite its sloppiest practitioners, and it doesn’t require the belief of fucking idiots to work.
The scientific method is wonderful, but to call it a philosophical system is a misunderstanding on what philosophy and/or science is/are.
It seems likely that you have never studied either if that’s your belief.
There are other arguments, but if you confuse a method and a system, you clearly don’t know what you’re speaking about.
Science is a hugely important subset of epistemology, the study of how we know things. Let me be blunt: you are profoundly ignorant on the history and philosophy of science. I don’t expect you to thank me, but here is some reading so you can decrease your ignorance: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/
Your bluntness and link-dumping will not hide the fact that you make no sense. Science is not a subset of epistemology… epistemology, among other subjects, studies the links between science and truth.
Computers are feats of engineering, which is related but distinct from science and the scientific method. Vastly overstating what the scientific method is for isn’t helpful.
Engineering is a branch of Science. Specifically, Engineering is applied science. For example, scientists discovered that microwaves existed. Engineers made them heat up your food. How did we make safer and better microwaves appliances? Engineers applied the scientific method and iterated on the design and performed tests.
To say engineering is separate from the science is incorrect.
It was actually a scientist who made the first microwave.
They were doing experiments with hamsters with cryogenics, and warming up the frozen hamsters with hot paddles. It didn’t work that well, and the scientist felt bad for the hamsters.
So, he built the first microwave to warm the hamsters more evenly and ‘humanely’.
That’s right. The first thing cooked in a microwave was literally a hamster.
EDIT:
First Desktop microwave that matches what we consider a microwave today, I should have said. My apologies.
References:
A Smith, J Lovelock, A Parkes, 1954: Resuscitation of Hamsters after Supercooling or Partial Crystallization at Body Temperatures Below 0° C… Nature 173, 1136–1137
R K Andjus, J E Lovelock, 1955: Reanimation of rats from body temperatures between 0 and 1° C by microwave diathermy. The Journal of Physiology, 128.
Lovelock, J E, Smith A U, 1959, Heat transfer from and to animals in experimental hypothermia and freezing. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 80: 487-499.
The sources on wikipedia say it was Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer. He noticed a Mr. Goodbar candy bar he had in his pocket started to melt from microwaves from an active radar set he was working on. The first food deliberately cooked was popcorn, and the second was an egg, which exploded.
Here are the direct sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20110709081022/http://www.gallawa.com/microtech/history.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h1ESUz2H3E
If you have a link to the hamster experiment I would love to read more. I might dive into a microwave research hole today! lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
Video has links to references and actual interview with the scientist.
It wasn’t sold or marketed, but it was a microwave.
Very cool! I’ll check it out! Thanks
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Engineering and science are separate though. They may share many characteristics and share knowledge between them, but the focus and results are fundamentally different.
Engineering is quite different from science. Scientists try to understand nature. Engineers try to make things that do not exist in nature.
Engineering is applied science. It’s literally an entire community of people who volunteered to test Science. And then apply it.
And everything that came out of it is evidence that science works.
Except that’s not actually how it worked. We didn’t always have solid scientific models before things happened. Bicycles are the more famous example of something that existed for years before science could explain why it works, it’s still not perfectly explained. Flight is also somewhat week in the scientific model for lift, but we can still make planes.
While there have been instances where scientists have theorized/discovered X is possible and then a way to do X was built, it’s not required.
Hypothesis: adding this part or doing that thing will make it do what I want.
Experiment: do that change and see if it does the thing you want.
If it doesn’t do what you want, go back to hypothesis step. If that’s not science, idk what is.
You don’t know what is. Science isn’t do something and see if it works, it’s about explaining why something works. Scientific experiments only disprove a hypothesis or can’t disprove. Eventually a collection of results can be evidence of proof, but it’s not actually proof.
You’re more in engineering of wanting to do a thing and finding a way to accomplish that thing based on the current understanding of the relative science.
I literally just described the scientific method. Sure, it’s not the kind of question most scientists would ask, but it’s the same scientific method.
Just because the theoretical was finalized after the practical, doesn’t mean that it isn’t applied science.
We made wheels. We didn’t know why it made sense for them to be circular, but we knew it was easier to load them.
Later on, we learnt about catenary tracks and how circular wheels are great for reducing friction by reducing the contact surface area, as well as the fact that rolling is easier compared to pushing or pulling.
All of these are things that we instinctually understood but didn’t know how to explain.
This was, is and will be how science works. You see something happen, and you try to understand the how and why.
All of theoretical science comes from experimentation, which means on some level, you will require engineering. Similarly, all of engineering comes from the gradual process of perfecting how things works (or can work), which is science.
Ah, yes, I was waiting for you, Well Ackshually It’s Engineering Man.
Nothing else. Nice to see you again.
Is the dean of engineering at Boston University also a well Ackshuslly guy?
https://www.bu.edu/eng/about-eng/meet-the-dean/engineering-is-not-science/
I dunno man, I’m going to have to check in with the aliens and JFK Jr. on Telegram. Let’s just wait for another Q-drop to lead the way. It’s been a while since the last one, I’m hoping Fauci hasn’t slurped Ron’s brains out through his eye sockets.
There’s a nuanced view to be made somewhere in here, but this ain’t it. We do have a reproducibility crisis because everyone wants to do a new study instead of retesting to verify old results. And there are some worries about post hoc statistical analysis. But this meme just sounds like general skepticism about science.
Yeah, label everyone left of Bernie Sanders a “Right Winger” so you don’t have to think and have interactions with people that think differently than you.
Yeah vaccines are bullshit get me the ivermectin/s you doofus
im not antivaxx. although the covid one imo has not been tested nearly enough, at least back when they were shilling it. i believe in vaccines dont get me wrong, though people should be given the choice to not.
Strawman argument.
yes its called a joke
Schrodinger’s Conservative Asshole:
Option A: the cat thinks you’re witty and accurate! –>Thank you, I am an observant and urbane man of the world
Option B: the cat thinks you’re an offensive and deeply wrong asshole! –> Jeez, you upright jerks just can’t take a funny joke
Jokes are usually humorous. This is just word salad by someone delusional.
jokes are also subjective. i guess i misjudged this audience as having critical thinking skills
I think you’ve got a very warped and incorrect interpretation of “critical thinking” in this context.
It’s totally okay that you’re not smart enough to understand all the big scientific words, but you don’t have to deflect the blame.
This is not how science and the scientific method is working!
There are flaws in the scientific method and the peer Review. Mostly that it is done by humans.
However you should use evidence and experiments everybody can redo to base your argument on.
Also everything that is currently a fact may be disproven by the next scientific break through.
To err is human. Not changing your mind given obvious evidence is stupid.
Unfortunately we rarely have obvious evidence for sth.
Math is my god.
I’m not. I think we need less ideas. Thinking makes me sad. Why do I need to innovate or change anything? Because capital wants it done? I was probably happier with a motorola razr than my android phone.
holy crap are you being sincere? ‘thinking makes me sad’??
Well, COVID proved that “science” is as bought off as politicians.
We should be able to question everything, especially if push back is seen in the MSM and censorship is used to stop the counter to the mainstream.
yep. sad so many sheep see someone questioning the system and downvote without thinking
