Introduction: Science,
evidence and honesty
The "scientifically proven" is a very delicate concept.
Although this article may seem philosophical let me write some reflections on science, scientists and research.
We live immersed in concepts now assimilated as "ascertained", we take for granted axioms that we have learned at school and our society is governed by principles that seem innate, unexceptionable and undeniable.
If I say that the Earth is at the center of the solar system and rotates with other planets around a star, it may seem elementary and trivial to try to discuss it. Sure.
Are we "certain of the certainty" of this fact?
Ok, let's not enter into philosophy but if you think a moment to the Earth, who of you has "seen" it? And who has seen that revolves around the Sun?
To be honest, are we sure that the Earth is a globe that rotates on itself? As we have to say, we have never seen the Earth rotate with our eyes nor do we feel the Earth moving under our feet.
We trust the knowledge of those who have studied astronomy and physics. We believe in what someone, more experienced than us in a given subject, refers to.
If astronomers say that the Earth is round and rotates around the Sun and is immersed in space it can not be that way.
In this way, every other theory that refutes this "certainty" until it is proved to be correct remains false, wrong by whoever it comes from.
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