• ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world
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    The Royal Society in London, a scientific institution since the 1600s motto is “On no one’s word”. One of the fundamental ideas of science is that everything should be reproducible. You literally don’t need to take anything on faith.

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      Presuming you have all the instruments you need, an unlimited budget and the time to repeat everyone’s studies, yes.