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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 16:06:42 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   This one guy in the comments section of the Aftenposten news site says that you can't trust scientific consensus because there was once a scientific consensus that the Earth was flat, that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun orbited the Earth.

   It's a myth that the ancients believed the Earth was flat.

   As for the rest: The means of observation were limited. They are not anywhere near as limited when it comes to, say, contemporary climate science.

   1. Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 20:33:22 EDT Sorokin Alexei

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      @thorthenorseman Despite that this is a myth, appealing to science being wrong before the development of the scientific method is still pretty wrong.
      It's not exactly the science as we know it today.
      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 01:13:07 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         @xrevan86 I pointed that out in a toot elsewhere.

      2. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 01:13:37 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         @xrevan86 Yes, I pointed that out in a toot elsewhere.