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Originally Posted by Alarti0001
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Scientists have trust or confidence in the scientific method because of its repeated history of solving problems or questions. There is much evidence to support this with hundreds or thousands of years of testable data.
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Without empirical results, this trust in the scientific method (inclusive of peer review) rather than trust in individual scientists, is synonymous with faith, and is a crutch used by all scientists to actually get work done instead of going around and testing everything empirically themselves, which no scientist has the time or funding to do.