Can science solve the world’s problems?

Aero the Alcoholic Bat said:
Human beings are notoriously full of shit and obsessed with confirming their own biases. The scientific method is incredibly easy to ignore or subvert, and it's easy to dress your pseudo-religious, cultish beliefs in a "scientific" looking garb.
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A bunch of Twitter addicted retards sucking a decrepit guido's dick is not representative of something you do everytime you try new recipes.
 
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ManInTheBlarms said:
Aging
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Now you can spend another few decades hooked on shitty drugs with shitty side effects made by shitty companies and an ever shitter quality of life before you die in your own shit in a nursing home.
ManInTheBlarms said:
food production
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Enabled mass migration from third world countries, created insane income disparities among farmers there, got us using shitty fertilizers that are insanely polluting and potentially dangerous to the consumer, causes yet another supply chain vulnerability that leads to instability, civil wars, and famine, and will verifiably cause the biggest famine in history once the system breaks down sooner or later.
ManInTheBlarms said:
warfare (like it or not nukes have kept ww3 away)
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I don't even need to bring up nuclear warfare (to which you're wrong since nations try and evade MAD all the time and we almost did have nuclear wars), I just need to bring up trench warfare, poison gas, etc. and of course biowarfare. Arguably advanced military logistics in general since that's where you get violent empires, sustained warfare, etc. as far back as the Assyrians.
ManInTheBlarms said:
transportation
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Produced lots of pollution, is the leading cause of death for people under 40, has always been there to exploit people (just look how literally every part of the railway industry worked in the 19th century from people working on board the trains to the people who built the trains to the robber baron faggots running the railroad companies)
ManInTheBlarms said:
trade.
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Exists to impoverish nations and peripheries of nations and enrich the core, nowadays does that with the entire world, spreads pollution, spreads evil ideologies and religions, allows small minorities of people control vast populations (this isn't just the Jews BTW, Armenians, Gujarati, Hakka Chinese, etc. do it too)
 
"Science" is such a vague term that its hard to say. It could improve a lot of things and screw a lot of things. So long as some people are going to push things for their own view of things or what reality should be things like scientific advancement will be used as a tool.

I think it will solve a few problems then later it will be revealed that problems cropped up due to those fixes. Rinse and repeat because a perfect fix or system is impossible.
 
What could really solve the world's problems is if the world stops having the tendency to be run by evil.
 
Save the Loli said:
Now you can spend another few decades hooked on shitty drugs with shitty side effects made by shitty companies and an ever shitter quality of life before you die in your own shit in a nursing home.

Enabled mass migration from third world countries, created insane income disparities among farmers there, got us using shitty fertilizers that are insanely polluting and potentially dangerous to the consumer, causes yet another supply chain vulnerability that leads to instability, civil wars, and famine, and will verifiably cause the biggest famine in history once the system breaks down sooner or later.

I don't even need to bring up nuclear warfare (to which you're wrong since nations try and evade MAD all the time and we almost did have nuclear wars), I just need to bring up trench warfare, poison gas, etc. and of course biowarfare. Arguably advanced military logistics in general since that's where you get violent empires, sustained warfare, etc. as far back as the Assyrians.

Produced lots of pollution, is the leading cause of death for people under 40, has always been there to exploit people (just look how literally every part of the railway industry worked in the 19th century from people working on board the trains to the people who built the trains to the robber baron faggots running the railroad companies)

Exists to impoverish nations and peripheries of nations and enrich the core, nowadays does that with the entire world, spreads pollution, spreads evil ideologies and religions, allows small minorities of people control vast populations (this isn't just the Jews BTW, Armenians, Gujarati, Hakka Chinese, etc. do it too)
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Ok so we're just gonna take examples from literally decades ago that science has already dealt with, and when we can't we'll just spin it as hard as we can. There are downsides to these things but being able to go fucking anywhere on the planet and sometimes people die is better than staying at home forever and dying of cholera or whatever.
 
Considering all the advancements that have apparently made our lives easier and then looking at the current state of society I would suggest not.
 
Most people are retarded and not really fond of science (but they love the appearance of being smart and appearing to be higher up on the social ladder than they really are, which basic glances into science can grant). So no. I've just come to the conclusion that a scientific society is a religious society and a religious society needs to keep the masses in check and doing what they were born to do , whether that be a farmer, researcher, clergy merchant or king.

While I think caste aystems are a bit overboard, I do agree with Plato's form of government in the Republic (minus the homosexual shit).
 
Osmosis Jones said:
Nigger do some research. We've been within inches of global nuclear war multiple times since WWII.
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I'm aware retard, everyone's fucking aware. But has it happened??? Fucking shitslinging nigtard there hasn't been a single conflict anywhere NEAR ww2 in the years since
 
To a degree. Especially when said scientific breakthroughs is something the public has access to. But more often than not, innovation tends to get shut down by bigger organizations as they see it as a threat to their livelihood or at least limited to the upper echelons of society because fuck the peasants.

Which is why technology to make car fuel out of alcohol isn't encouraged as it hurts the oil biz. Another example I can think of is none other than the cancer industry in the US. Cancer immunotherapy existed by 2013 and its not implemented here because it doesn't net as much money as chemotherapy. As the former doesn't run up the patient in terms of aftercare, medical supplies and the potential for the death industry to turn a profit.

Sseth does an excellent job in presenting how this treatment works.

https://youtu.be/hsRVQWfqjms?t=4208

Sadly, science tends to end up as a new religious dogma not far off from that South Park episode with Atheists. Pushed and propped up by various companies and governments just to further their own agenda. Blindly clamoring to trust it. Never mind the fact science is made to challenge pre-conceptions and overturn faulty ideas.
 
Someone beat me to it. Science can tell you that certain fluids conduct electricity, but not whether it's a good idea to pee on an electric fence. Religion, politics, and ethics among other things will not be determined by the scientific method. These are the sources of many of our problems. Maybe with all the "experiments" with communism, it can tell us what not to do, but how many experiments can the world take to find the perfect scientific political system?
 
Save the Loli said:
Science has never solved a single problem without creating new ones to replace it. Name a problem, literally any problem in this world, and I can tell you how science has made the problem worse, not better.
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You know making fire to roast meat was an improvement in being able to get access to more protein and vitamins, even if it did create the problem of having to find wood and manage the fire.

Then building huts to live in was an improvement in shelter from the elements, even if it did making nomadic lifestyle harder and additional work. Also trying to make the fires inside now created an air pollution problem.

Then building chimneys solved the local air pollution and not choke half to seath. This created the new problem of worse isolation.

And so on and so on.

The new problems didn't replace the old ones, because they were smaller. Science has almost solved all problems. But the insescapable truth is that we're imprinted to act in certain ways, to expect certain things. There is no utopia, because we are built to expect danger, strife, with fear in our hearts. And if somehow we were to lose that, we would lose who we are and become cattle.

Discomfort is an essential part of being human.
 
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