/lit/ - Literature

>>15263862
To your defence, using analogy to deal in absolutes is bad form on my part. Let me elaborate: I can tell you that raw data, the outcome of experiments and thus our way of understanding the world, can be interpreted in such different ways where the same dataset can point to either direction. Fewer than half of all medical literature published is even barely reproducible, did you know that? For fields like psychology/psychiatry, the vast, vast majority of studies cannot be reproduced.

Meaning: our most rigorous way of looking for the truth, the scientific method, only provides approximations, and not even good ones at that matter. So worshipping ""truth"" is a fool's errand, because to the human experience, this concept cannot be perceived.