# Calling all skeptics, logicians, scientists, and the just plain cynical.

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 22, 2005, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-skeptics-logicians-scientists-and-the-just-plain-cynical/309326 "2005-06-22T07:07:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-skeptics-logicians-scientists-and-the-just-plain-cynical/309326/101 "2005-06-28T23:59:17Z")

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> [@Cervaise](#):
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> And what’s more, this is the **sole** human endeavor that is structured around the elimination of bias, error, and deceit. Every single other activity either tolerates or encourages these flaws; the scientific method is specifically designed to root them out. You cannot say this about politics, or art, or business, or anything else I can think of (with the possibly debatable exception of sport). In those fields, imprecision and dishonesty are accepted or even rewarded. We say, idealistically, that we try to eliminate them, but actual, practical experience gives the lie to our starry-eyed intentions. In science, and **only** in science, is the opposite true not just in practical experience **but as a fundamental part of the field’s philosophical and operational foundation.**
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> I know where my intellectual loyalties lie.

Hear, Hear. And those postmodernist university professors who have promulgated the “science is just one among many equally valid ways of knowing” idea that we see here sometime have got a lot to answer for.

What they are really saying is that “My vague longings for an answer to the meaning of it all” are the equivalent of a carefully designed and carried out scientific experiment.

Bunk, all bunk.

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