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:::::I never said it 'makes their position right'. And in using the slavery example you are mixing up science and ethics. What is 'right' from a scientific point of view is something that has not yet been falsified, so it is perhaps better to say 'provisionally accepted' (please see my post on the Noah's Ark page I have recently made concerning the scientific method). The slavery example is a question of whether someone views slavery as morally 'right'. Of course to virtually everyone today the answer seems obvious, it is not. But as you say in the past this was not so simple, and many people saw it the opposite way. Our judgement of these people and their actions is retrospective, of course we view them as wrong, but they evidently believed they were right. Anyway, that is just an aside, since it is not relevant to the question of scientific proof.

:::::I never said it 'makes their position right'. And in using the slavery example you are mixing up science and ethics. What is 'right' from a scientific point of view is something that has not yet been falsified, so it is perhaps better to say 'provisionally accepted' (please see my post on the Noah's Ark page I have recently made concerning the scientific method). The slavery example is a question of whether someone views slavery as morally 'right'. Of course to virtually everyone today the answer seems obvious, it is not. But as you say in the past this was not so simple, and many people saw it the opposite way. Our judgement of these people and their actions is retrospective, of course we view them as wrong, but they evidently believed they were right. Anyway, that is just an aside, since it is not relevant to the question of scientific proof.

::::::Another aside: So there's no connection or relevence between scientific proof, the scientific method, and morality?  Thanks for clearing that up.  The Nazi Doctors must've had, as you say, provisionally accepted truth.  [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 06:52, 22 November 2009 (EST)

::::::Another aside: So there's no connection or relevence between scientific proof, the scientific method, and morality?  Thanks for clearing that up.  The Nazi Doctors must've had, as you say, provisionally accepted truth.  [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 06:52, 22 November 2009 (EST)

:::::It has been shown time and time again, through application of the scientific method that there is no casual link between MMR or thiomersal and autism. All claims otherwise have since been falsified, as such, the only logical conclusion that can currently be reached is that there is no such link. And you are also getting mixed up with your biochemistry. Yes, mercury is toxic. But thiomersal is not mercury, it is a compound containing the element. The pseudoscience behind the supposed link is that it has mercury, therefore it must be toxic, as if the mercury component jsut spontaneously separates from the rest of the compound in the human body. There is NO evidence to support a link between thiomersal and autism. I don't know how many more times it needs to be stated, by either me, or those men and women wearing the white coats who have investigated this time and time again. [[User:DWiggins|DWiggins]] 16:58, 5 November 2009 (EST)

Well now that I'm back I can address that point. You appear to have muddled the issues up a bit. I was not passing moral judgement on scientific discoveries, I was simply saying that a scientific 'truth' is not the same as a moral 'truth'. What the Nazi 'doctors' were doing was not even science, it was just butchery with the name science applied to it. With the issue of slavery, science can tell us that what something is/how something works. It cannot tell us whether we should do something. Of course there's a connection between science and morality, but the scientific method is not a method of judging whether something is morally right or wrong, morality comes in when deciding how to use the results of scientific enquiry. [[User:DWiggins|DWiggins]] 19:28, 24 November 2009 (EST)

==Vaccines and sexually transmitted disease==

==Vaccines and sexually transmitted disease==