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 **Science is but one of many tools, a helper, NOT a replacement for everything.** Big science propaganda nowadays tries to push the idea that unless something is proven by science (or what they themselves call "science"), it is invalid; that we should not assume anything unless science proves it. That's not only very stupid but mainly dangerous, it invalidates any and all knowledge not officially approved by the big science police -- in other words it leads to establishing a [totalitarian](totality.md) regime giving a monopoly over truth to the big science. Not even talking about corruption and potential of abuse that we WILL pay for in such case, by relying exclusively on science in everything we immensely debilitate our ability to make decisions and throw away all other methods of obtaining knowledge, methods which at times may be more powerful exactly because they're not as strictly constrained as science. Let us repeat again that not everything can be proven by science and not everything is easy or practically possible to be proven by it. Thinking of science as the only applicable approach is like thinking a scientist will always be superior at any task, be it solving equations, climbing rocks, composing symphonies or holding breath underwater -- sometimes life long experience of a brick layer is better than scientist's theoretical solution that only applies in vacuum with physically perfectly homogenous materials and only on planets where it never rains. Probably in most situations it is either much more efficient or even the only possible option to rely on knowledge gained in other ways, for example by intuition, educated guess or experience. Most decisions in life are done this way and even if we may get false knowledge this way (just like with science), we can mostly afford the risk and take its consequences, it's usually a good price to pay for being able to make decisions without having to perform rigorous research that will pass the immensely complex big science approval process. It's great if something is (legitimately) proven by science, but until that happens we may, and mostly SHOULD, rely on the next best thing, i.e. knowledge obtained by less reliable methods, e.g. observations of our ancestors regarding [stereotypes](stereotype.md), lore, advice of craftsmen and so on. If there is no scientific proof neither for nor against something, believing what's obvious is probably the best we can do. Science means questioning even common sense, but when science is powerless (or obscured, too expensive or unusable for any other reason), common sense is still superior.
 
-**What should we accept as "legit" science?** [We](lrs.md), in the context of our [ideal society](less_retarded_society.md), argue for NOT creating a strict, black and white definition of science, just as we are for example against "formalizing [morality](morality.md)" with [laws](law.md) etc. There are no hard lines between good and evil, fun and boring, useful and useless, bloated and minimal, and so also there is no strict line between science and non-science. What is and is not science is to be judged on a case-by-case basis and can be disagreed on without any issue, science cannot be a mass produced stream of papers that can automatically be marked OK or NOT OK. We might define the term **[less retarded science](less_retarded_science.md)** so as to distinguish today's many times twisted and corrupted "science/[soyence](soyence.md)" from the real, good and truly useful rational conduct and way of thought. Less retarded science should follow similar principles as [our technology](lrs.md), it should be completely free as in freedom, without any business and self interest, i.e. [selfless](selflessness.md), also [suckless](suckless.md) as much as possible, clear and unobscured etc. -- especially stressed should be the idea of many people being able to reproduce, test and verify less retarded science (see also [freedom distance](freedom_distance.md)); e.g. Newton's law of gravitation is less retarded because it can easily be verified by anyone, while the existence of Higgs boson is not. Similarly the line between scientists and non-scientists shouldn't be strict, common people should be able to do basic science, reasoning, experiments, calculations and research of literature, but indeed to arrive at such highly advanced stage would require a very long time, to get very close to [less retarded society](less_retarded_society.md).
+**What should we accept as "legit" science?** [We](lrs.md), in the context of our [ideal society](less_retarded_society.md), argue for NOT creating a strict, black and white definition of science, just as we are for example against "formalizing [morality](morality.md)" with [laws](law.md) etc. There are no hard lines between good and evil, fun and boring, useful and useless, bloated and minimal, and so also there is no strict line between science and non-science. What is and is not science is to be judged on a case-by-case basis and can be disagreed on without any issue, science cannot be a mass manufactured stream of papers that can automatically be marked OK or NOT OK. What to one is science may not be science to another: just like a doorknob or bicycle is simple technology to human but esoteric [magic](magic.md) to a [dog](dog.md), [mathematics](math.md) is science to mathematician and magic to the stupid. **Science is always only science to those who can perform it**, to others it's esotericism, a belief -- not necessarily useless, but something that must be treated accordingly, something that may be refused to be believed, something subject to questioning and assumed corrupted. Quantum mechanics is science only to people with appropriate knowledge and equipment to carry out its experiments and understand their results, to everyone else quantum mechanism is in principle equivalent to shamanism. From this we might judge relativistic physics probably at the edge of what can universally be called science, as it's still practically possible for most people to carry out relativistic experiments such as measuring speed of light and observing motion of planets, but beyond is no more universal science.
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+We might define the term **[less retarded science](less_retarded_science.md)** so as to distinguish today's many times twisted and corrupted "science/[soyence](soyence.md)" from the real, good and truly useful rational conduct and way of thought. Less retarded science should follow similar principles as [our technology](lrs.md), it should be completely free as in freedom, without any business and self interest, i.e. [selfless](selflessness.md), also [suckless](suckless.md) as much as possible, clear and unobscured etc. -- especially stressed should be the idea of many people being able to reproduce, test and verify less retarded science (see also [freedom distance](freedom_distance.md)); e.g. Newton's law of gravitation is less retarded because it can easily be verified by anyone, while the existence of Higgs boson is not. Similarly the line between scientists and non-scientists shouldn't be strict, common people should be able to do basic science, reasoning, experiments, calculations and research of literature, but indeed to arrive at such highly advanced stage would require a very long time, to get very close to [less retarded society](less_retarded_society.md).
 
 **Never confuse trusting science with trusting scientists** (especially in [capitalism](capitalism.md) and other dystopias), the latter is literally faith ([soyence](soyence.md)), no different from blindly trusting religious preachers and political propaganda, the former means only trusting that which you yourself can test and verify at home and therefore having real confidence. We are not saying that you should never trust a scientist, only that you should know doing so is just pure relying on someone's word, which in today's society you often cannot afford to do. Also do NOT confuse or equate science with [academia](academia.md). As with everything, under capitalism academia has become rotten to the core, research is motivated by profit and what's produced is mostly utter bullshit shat out by wannabe [PhD](phd.md)s who need to mass produce "something" as a part of the crazy academia publish-or-perish game. As with everything in capitalism, the closer you look, the more corruption you find. So wait, **can we just trust nothing researched by someone else?** It's not so simple: for starters just realize that trusting "the big science" nowadays with anything important (e.g. one's health) is just like entrusting a random stranger in the street something that's valuable to you (actually it's worse because unlike a stranger, entities such as [corporations](corporation.md) have absolutely no emotion and conscience) -- can you do that? Well, sometimes yes, mostly it's probably a great risk, and generally you want to avoid having to do it. In the past things were better, so you can generally trust "science" that was done much further in the past, i.e. facts you find in old encyclopedias are generally more trustworthy than facts you find on today's internet. [LRS](lrs.md) would like to establish society in which "big science" would be trustworthy again; until we succeed though, you have to keep distrust in soyence.