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Identifying Future-Proof Science, Hardback Book

Identifying Future-Proof Science Hardback

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Is science getting at the truth? The sceptics - those who spread doubt about science - often employ a simple argument: scientists were 'sure' in the past, and then they ended up being wrong.

Through a combination of historical investigation and philosophical-sociological analysis, Identifying Future-Proof Science defends science against this potentially dangerous scepticism.

Indeed, we can confidently identify many scientific claims that are future-proof: they will last forever, so long as science continues.

How do we identify future-proof claims? This appears to be a new question for science scholars, and not an unimportant one.

Peter Vickers argues that the best way to identify future-proof science is to avoid any attempt to analyse the relevant first-order scientific evidence, instead focusing purely on second-order evidence.

Specifically, a scientific claim is future-proof when the relevant scientific community is large, international, and diverse, and at least 95% of that community would describe the claim as a 'scientific fact'.

In the entire history of science, no claim meeting these criteria has ever been overturned, despite enormous opportunity.

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