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    • All articles are free if you ask the author directly, or:
      http://people.soc.co…      drgs
    • ^ aye, i have access to most journals through work, but it's still a pain in the ass esp. as you say the papers are never intended to be paid for...kingsteven
    • for stuff like nature or most news paywalls http://archive.is will do the job.kingsteven
    • No, thanks. Netflix is cheaper.palimpsest
    • Science is the new religionBeeswax
    • Except it isn’t like religion at all and is not a belief system.monospaced
    • https://scienceandth…jtb26
    • its a verbjaylarson
    • Btw, the article is from 1992. Id bet science was even less accessable before internetdrgs
    • no @mono it's exactly like that and its not new It has its own zealots, it's used for money and power, it even caused wars. It helped some but also killed manyBeeswax
    • and you are a believer. You believe that science will save the world. No?Beeswax
    • No, it's not. Science is a system of figuring things out, and is founded on the premise of questioning itself continuously. Nothing like religion.monospaced
    • We KNOW that science produces results. Religion neither produces results, or claims to. It cannot, as it is a belief system. Science is a figuring out system.monospaced
    • Science is a practice, a method, nothing more. It isn't dogma, it only verifies and refines truths about the natural world.monospaced
    • IF anything is going to make progress, it will be science. There is nothing else at our disposal, and you know it. Why? Because it's nothing like religion.monospaced
    • After all this time Mono you’re still wrong. Science is a method. Religion is a category. The absence if the scientific method is NOT religion. Religion can...Morning_star
    • ..and does use the scientific method. Science and religion are NOT comparable because they are not the same thing.Morning_star
    • * The absence of..Morning_star
    • I think we're saying the same thing. I said repeatedly science is a method. I agree with you 100% that religion isn't filling in gaps in science.monospaced
    • The only disagreement I have is that religion uses the scientific method for any of its doctrine.monospaced
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