No and Yes. This is not the superficial sort of "love science" à la https://files.explosm.net/comics/Kris/same.png Science is not just a collection of facts. Science is a world-view; it is a way of approaching, learning and understanding the world. These things matter. Despite calls to "trust the science," there is a huge pushback from both the political left and right against science whenever it doesn't agree with their ideology. This manifests in people denying global warming, promoting alternative medicine, being anti-vax, opposing GMOs, opposing nuclear energy and promoting mythology as equal to science. So I am absolutely interested in science itself but that does not mean just being interested in collecting random facts, which may be falsified by later knowledge, it's about a world-view where all beliefs are supported by evidence and those which are not are discarded.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
No and Yes. This is not the superficial sort of "love science" à la https://files.explosm.net/comics/Kris/same.png Science is not just a collection of facts. Science is a world-view; it is a way of approaching, learning and understanding the world. These things matter. Despite calls to "trust the science," there is a huge pushback from both the political left and right against science whenever it doesn't agree with their ideology. This manifests in people denying global warming, promoting alternative medicine, being anti-vax, opposing GMOs, opposing nuclear energy and promoting mythology as equal to science. So I am absolutely interested in science itself but that does not mean just being interested in collecting random facts, which may be falsified by later knowledge, it's about a world-view where all beliefs are supported by evidence and those which are not are discarded.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~