Well, here’s a story I didn’t expect today, but here we are:
Steak-umm’s Twitter Account Feuds With Neil deGrasse Tyson Over Science: ‘Log Off Bro’
First, NdT tweeted:
The good thing about Science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.
but then the Twitter account for Steak-Umm replied with:
log off bro
And…
the irony of neil’s tweet is that by framing science itself as “true” he’s influencing people to be more skeptical of it in a time of unprecedented misinformation. science is an ever refining process to find truth, not a dogma. no matter his intent, this message isn’t helpful
log off bro https://t.co/sf4zLm33Jm
— Steak-umm (@steak_umm) April 13, 2021
And you know… they’re not wrong. Science is a *process,* not a pile of facts. The process has been shown to work, and work well; no “other way of knowing,” no supernatural or religious or intuitive revelation has proven to be *anywhere* near as useful when it comes to discovering how the world really is. But the findings of science are *always* up for revision and change as new data comes in. How far away is Betelgeuse? How old is the universe? What causes and cures such-and-such disease? When did the last mammoth die? These are questions with hard factual real answers… but we often don’t know them with precision or accuracy; science is forever adjusting.