Dec. 5, 2021
"Doubt is our product"
"Doubt is our product" was a famous phrase said by a well-known tobacco industry executive in the 1970s. His strategy was to propagate the idea that tobacco is not harmful in all cases. He gave some examples of people who had smoked all their lives and had not developed any serious illnesses.
This lack of universality raised doubts and aimed to paralyse public opinion and politicians.
However, Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, already warned that there are no absolute proofs in science, but that we have to settle for a provisional truth and always be on the lookout for counterexamples.The weight of these to disprove a theory has to be studied statistically.
This theory of Popper's is known as 'falsificationism' and is a real antidote to views such as the past tobacco industry that self-interestedly searched an absolute correlation between tobacco and health damage. By the way, the antivaccine Covid maintain the same epistemological error today as the tobacco industry of the past.
"Doubt iIs oOur pProduct"
"Doubt is our product" was a famous phrase said by a well-known tobacco industry executive in the 1970s.
His strategy was to propagate the idea that tobacco is not harmful in all cases.
He gave some examples of people who had smoked all their lives and had not developed any serious illnesses.
This lack of universality raised doubts and aimed to paralyse public opinion and politicians.
However, Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, already warned that there are no absolute proofs in science, but that we have to settle for a provisional truth and always be on the lookout for counterexamples. The weight of these to disprove a theory has to be studied statistically.
This theory of Popper's is known as 'falsificationism' and is a real antidote to views such as the past tobacco industry that self-interestedly searched an absolute correlation between tobacco and health damage.
By the way, the antiThose who are againts the COVID-19 vaccine Covid maintain the same epistemological error today as the tobacco industry of the past.
Adding "by the way" makes it seem like an afterthought. Since this is a strong point, you should expound on this thought a little bit more.
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Dec. 7, 2021
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"Doubt is our product" was a famous phrase said by a well-known tobacco industry executive in the 1970s. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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His strategy was to propagate the idea that tobacco is not harmful in all cases. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Show some examples of people who had smoked all their lives and had not developed any serious illnesses. |
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This lack of universality raised doubts and aimed to paralyse public opinion and politicians. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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However, Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, already warned that there are no absolute proofs in science, but that we have to settle for a provisional truth and always be on the lookout for counterexamples.The weight of these to disprove a theory has to be studied statistically. However, Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, already warned that there are no absolute proofs in science, but that we have to settle for a provisional truth and always be on the lookout for counterexamples. The weight of these to disprove a theory has to be studied statistically. |
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This theory of Popper's is known as 'falsificationism' and is a real antidote to views such as the past tobacco industry that self-interestedly searched an absolute correlation between tobacco and health damage. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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By the way, the antivaccine Covid maintain the same epistemological error today as the tobacco industry of the past.
Adding "by the way" makes it seem like an afterthought. Since this is a strong point, you should expound on this thought a little bit more. |
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He gaves some examples of people who had smoked all their lives and had not developed any serious illnesses. |
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He gave some examples of people who had smoked all their lives and had not developed any serious illnesses. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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