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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 05:34:36 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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   • AgreeableLandscape
   @AgreeableLandscape It is a sarcastic comment on the hubris of people who, even while being in the scientific profession, mix up the map and the terrain and believe that science is more an accomplished body of knowledge than a set of provisional models and a method for self-correction.
   • AgreeableLandscape (agreeablelandscape@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 05:34:37 UTC AgreeableLandscape

     "According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. [...]"

     This quote actually summarises a fundamental misunderstanding the general public has about #science, where they think it is trying to SET the rules of the world, or that scientific knowledge is immutable.

     Science, by design, acknowledges the limitations of its current models, and constantly strives to modify its models to fit the observed data. That's actually why science is such a powerful tool.