how can science be "objective" if scientists never calibrate the instruments used to calibrate their instru...

Question

ments used to calibrate their instruments?

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the answer to the question posed remains unanswered, though maybe it truly is worthless to try to answer it.
Although I messed up the qestion a little bit; it should've read "how can science be 'objective' if scientists never calibrate the instruments used to calibrate the instruments used to calibrate the instruments?"
So in fact, three instruments need to be calibrated.

Answer 1

They do--all scientific instruments are calibrated against an international set of standards based on known physical constants. For example, the unit of length the "meter" is based on the wavelength of light given off by a particular substance under specific conditions (you can look up the details--on the National Bureau of Standards website, I think.

Answer 2

As a scientist, here is my answer... Science is "objective" meaning it records what the senses perceive be it sound, touch, sight, etc. "Objective" means you record what you see, observe, measure, etc. As opposed to "subjective" which is speculative (meaning cannot be proved as a fact). It is a fallacy that "scientists never calibrate instruments." There are standard units of measurement to calibrate instruments. Most of these are in the British Metric System, etc. Weights and measures are calibrated to these "fixed" units of measurements. Observatory telescopes are calibrated every so often by specialists in the field. I hope this may help.

Answer 3

I'm on the same page as you. Here is my theory on why they do not believe in science; it questions their beliefs and in a way destroys everything they base their life on. I always believed in science. My faith came after. I always had the thought of Adam and Eve as a story for God's power, not of what actual happened. I mean what is so wrong in believing God made Evolution. If I was God I would want to sit back and watch things evolve, grow and morph. I think discounting science is very scary. My friend once told me she thought dinosaurs where fake. That people made up dinosaurs to disprove God. Give me a freaking break. She said if Dinosaurs are not in the Bible then they do not exists, it's the Devils work. Scary I tell you. Scary!

Answer 4

They do calibrate their instruments and make comparisons to other instruments.

Answer 5

Unless it is mathematical, it is only a theory.

Wisdom and common sense is more accurate in most cases.

Answer 6

All science attempts to do it classify things in relation to other things it has already classified.

Answer 7

who said they never do?

apparently you're not even vaguely familiar with the scientific method, so there's no point explaining...