Comment by qsera
3 hours ago
I am a bit sick of this narrative. That science can make mistakes is in no shape or form, one of its strengths. It is a weakness of the process.
The lipstick putting can be exposed by simply asking if you would not prefer a version of the scientific method that is never wrong.
Mathematicians proof theorems so they are always correct. Physicists don't have that privilege.
>Physicists don't have that privilege.
Then don't claim it as a strength!
Celebrating the mistakes is, as you're saying, perhaps a bit too far. But mistakes will happen, it's just the nature of the world. That makes developing a robust error correction mentality something that genuinely is worth celebrating.