Brian Earp

“The public cares little about science, except insofar as its conclusions can be made to intervene in behalf of some moral, religious or social controversy.”
― Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science?

“statistics, like any tool, don’t work well in all cases and conditions and like any tool can be used well or badly”
― Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science?

“In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.”
― Albert Camus

“How are we to evaluate the truth claims of science when we know that these claims may in the future be overturned? Elsewhere I have called this problem the instability of scientific truth.16 In the 1980s, philosopher Larry Laudan called it the pessimistic meta-induction of the history of science.17 He observed (as have many others) that the history of science offers many examples of scientific “truths” that were later viewed as misconceptions”
― Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science?