I mean, you can’t test everything. And no, following the latest science doesn’t count. Which leaves us authoritarianisming it up like medieval troglodytes.
I mean, you can’t test everything. And no, following the latest science doesn’t count. Which leaves us authoritarianisming it up like medieval troglodytes.
All science is based on observations whose veracity can’t be completely proven. You may be a brain in a vat and all your life experiences are illusions. All you can do is make sense of the world with respect to your observations and have faith that it is an accurate representation of reality.
Science is still better than religion or plain guessing because in science you are looking for logical consistency. Even if your worldview is false, at least it will be in accordance with itself.
Does science fail at scale?
Why would it?
Because you can’t test everything.
No, but given enough people in the field and enough time, you can test most of what matters. You don’t need to test (and re-test) absolutely everything. Just enough to draw consistent conclusions for the decisions people make.
That’s just a drop of investigation in ocean of assumption. It doesn’t feel very scientific.
We don’t need to know everything, we just need to know enough to make a decision off of. We see the same medication work 10000 times, we have evidence that we should use it. We see that a metal expand the same way when we test it 100 times. We can use that metal when we need something that expands consistently with tempreture. We don’t need to know everything because our lives doesn’t involve everything, and if we do discover something new, we either test it ourselves, or submit it to other groups to test.
Why should you?
Because it might be important
Go find a real scientist that says you should test EVERYTHING. I won’t wait because they won’t tell you that you should.
That’s nice, but how about my question?
Your question is really vague; I think that’s one reason people are having a hard time answering. What do you mean by “lifestyle”? Can you give some specific examples of areas or ways in which you want to apply science to your everyday life?