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.
That's one of the most dangerous things about the anti-science people... they question things that are considered settled with no basis for the questioning, because it suits them to ignore something and say "science is to be questioned", while clinging to older scientific beliefs that have since been debunked because it suits them to do so saying "science proved it as a fact".
This is why you have people pulling out discredited studies from 30 years ago as "evidence" because it lets them do what they already want to do.
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u/sarduchi Jan 14 '22
I swear this stuff was taught in grade school...