2026-02-12
36 分钟Hello everyone.
I'm Steven West.
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So I want you to imagine a world where some kind of major crisis goes down in the sciences,
where then after it happens,
people no longer believed in the scientific method anymore as a reliable way of arriving at knowledge about the world.
In other words,
imagine in this world people no longer believe that it's valid for scientists to go out into the field,
run their experiments.
Imagine all that stuff's just not trusted anymore.
But that at a cultural level,
people still go on and use all kinds of scientific terminology as a way to describe all the things around them.
Imagine people still use terms like gravity in everyday discussion.
They may talk about the nucleus of something in a conversation.
They may talk about the inertia of their career.
But imagine they use these scientific terms without the foundation that made sense of these things in the first place.
Well,