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Originally Posted by Hasbinlulz
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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.
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Trust isnt faith, the definitions of rudimentary words escape you. You can say they are the same as much as you want however, you will be wrong, as usual. Trust can be synonymous with confidence however, which is why science generally develops tests within confidence intervals, ex 5 sigma.