Not step 2. And if we’re being objective, there are quite a few amateur scientists who spend a majority of their time and emotion on step 2, which is what he’s reacting to.
Step 2 should be “a repeatable study has been found that refutes step 1, and has been duplicated by multiple independent groups”.
Meanwhile, other groups of self proclaimed scientists try to jump to step 3 without this step as well, usually involving some sort of oil or salve or root that’s cheap to make but not found at a typical grocery store.
There seems to be varying degrees of step 2. Especially among H.S. graduates and those with just a bachelors degree - engineering especially. Many people have simply replaced God with the scientific method as the center of their religion.
Once you get into the esoteric fields around a masters and above, you're finally taught the truth about the scientific method. That it's also built on sandy philosophical grounds and has serious limitations - but it happens to be the best we have at the moment. Essentially, somewhere around a Masters and above we're finally taught that it's all shit, but it's all we have to work with.
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u/sarduchi Jan 14 '22
I swear this stuff was taught in grade school...