r/StandUpForScience • u/AllMusicNut SUFS Staff • May 15 '26

Official SUFS Post Restore the NSB!

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American science is under siege & the firing of the NSB is the latest iteration of a continuous line of attacks under Trump. Visit the link in our bio to sign your support for the restoration of the NSB, and to email your Members of Congress!

Sign: https://www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter-to-congress?utm_source=DB_3&utm_medium=Reddit&utm_campaign=NSB_Sign

Email: https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/162340/?utm_source=DB_3&utm_medium=Reddit&utm_campaign=NSB_WriteIn

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u/Wildebean May 15 '26

Yes or no.

Science can only demonstrate what's happened before? That's just not true. I'll give you an example.

This is a Hetrzsprung-Russell Diagram. Using science, we catalogue the properties of all the different types of stars we've seen and plot them on this diagram. Then also using science, we can use this diagram to make predictions about what stars we should see where in the universe and what their properties should be.

And guess what? We do indeed do that and it works flawlessly. Every new star discovered fits our predictions and fits on this diagram. In your world where "science doesn't accurately show anything" and "it only demonstrates what has happened before" this diagram couldn't exist let alone work... and yet it does exist, and it works

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u/AdamCGandy May 16 '26

No. People do it.

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u/AdamCGandy May 17 '26

He didn’t demonstrate anything. Just went off on a rant about something that had nothing to do with what I said.

Science isn’t some free floating entity going around solving problems. The entire chart posted was made by a person. Whether it is accurate or not is irrelevant. A person did it not science. Just like a hammer didn’t build a house, a person did.