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You are very confused.
Certainty pertains to religions and turns into a cult when it becomes dogmatic.
Science is all about consensus around different possibilities.
They are called theories, not commandments.
What you talk about is politics.
Which is one that the scientific community agrees on .
Politics is about having the majority of the votes.
Politics is not evaluated on the basis of falsifiability.
— Max Planck, Scientific autobiography, 1950, p. 33, 97
It means that it took several generations of doctors to reach a consensus around the fact that viruses are actually very dangerous and we can be reasonably sure that the Rogan's objections have already been presented and discarded as bullshit. More than one time.
It also means that if Rogan, a man in his middle 50s, spreads disinformation on a platform where a large part of the audience is young, we risk that the future generation will be familiar with his bullshit theories.
That's why he shouldn't be allowed to be a popular voice.
Believing that science is always correct it's wrong, science gives us ranges, plausible certainties, risk evaluation strategies, but believing that people outside of science can disprove what people of science have studied and discussed for decades, it's idiotic.
You are right. Just have some lemma near some old proof.
Still being knowledgable about science and understanding its method for finding truth is currently the best weapon against the snake oil salesmen and their buttery voices.
I talk about science the method, not the group of old men grading papers. Maybe that is our misunderstanding. For you science is the scientific community, for me it is the method. One has a consensus, one clearly does not.
Science is the method.
The method is to put the burden of the proof on the humans that disagree with what the method has reached an agreement on.
Because it's really hard to trick the method given a large enough community that disagree on the results.
We are fallible, the method, at least, doesn't care about our feelings.
If a large number of doctors say X is true and Y is bullshit, if I think Y is true and X bullshit, I need the same number of doctors to agree with me to counter the argument.
The doctors that Rogan has on will be the ones to stand the test of time and the rest of the medical establishment will turn out to be wrong on this.
Rogan's opinions are not to be taken seriously (and mine as well),unless they pass the test of time.
But Rogan opposes to smth that has already passed the test of time.
So the burden of the proof is on him.