If everybody agrees with you then that's a pretty good sign that you are wrong.

[socsa@piefed.social]

People who don't understand science don't get this. When science changes it doesn't mean the previous ideas were "wrong" - it usually just means that the framework and the data it is built around was incomplete or imprecise. That's the entire premise of empiricism, and why there are differences between how theory, fact and axiom are handled.

Far too many people believe that the history of overturned consensus suggests that modern consensus is also "wrong" when it was the empiricist framework which discovered both "truths" in the first place.

[sabre363@sh.itjust.works]

Perhaps, but for a lot of people it can be incredibly dangerous or even lethal to be that social target

[belastend@slrpnk.net]

Contrarianism in a nutshell.

You're not smart, you're just a hipster.

[themurphy@lemmy.ml]

Must be hard to come around math, science and in general facts for you. We all agree on how it works, so it must be wrong?

[dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org]

Based on the downvotes, you must think this was a good take lmao

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

Not even once.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

Do you always frame your assertions as questions?

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

So right. And look everybody agrees with you.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

Assuming the English alphabet, A is the first letter.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

People will say mean things to you at the very least.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

Such careful thinking, such scientificness, is rare as hen's teeth. And authoritarianism is so common.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

It's expected. It's the 2 or 3 thoughtful responses that I'm looking for.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

That's a special case.

Most of popular thought is not that.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

Then replace "wrong" with "arrived at in a nonreasonable way".

[themurphy@lemmy.ml]

Only if I ask for an answer.

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

If I was to say "the sky is blue" and everyone agrees with me, it's actually because the sky is fucking blue.

I don't know how you came to such a wildly bad conclusion.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

There are exceptions of course. And maybe that's one of them. Or maybe it isn't. The point would be to reexamine your conclusions. Because it's so easy to get caught up in the groupthink.

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

You mean Cuneiform.

[driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br]

For unpopular opinion maybe

[lugal@sopuli.xyz]

Not in the anglosphere