Opinion: Can We Trust Science?
An article in a Newspaper asked; "Can we trust forensic science?" The BBC reported the same story as, "The troubling flaws in forensic science." It seems like the world is asking if we can trust science at all (let alone forensic science)! Apparently there are a lot of "false-facts" and "fake-news" out there. Its true because it is in the paper! Photo Credit: Smoking Gun Photo Credit: Nation One News Foundation When I was younger my hope was to come to understand the universe in order to know the truth. I studied science at university because I believed that it would give me a deeper understanding of facts. I perceived that facts were truths. If I had enough facts then I should be able to understand what is THE truth. It did not take long before I started to realise that many scientific facts were full of subjectivity. They have to be. A scientist can only understand something through the knowledge that they already have. Th...
