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I would say that it's difficult to assert this in a scientific way. Or better: magic thinking, religion and other sources can be input as well and produce scientific outcomes.

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The difference is between:

    My intuition is telling me this is true.

and

    My intuition is telling me this is true.  Let me test it.

What I wrote is that we can say the same thing with every source of information, even purely unscientific things like magic thinking, rituals, etc. That's the paradoxical thing about science. And also, there are a lot of things that you can't test and can't probe but they are true.

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