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Originally Posted by oats
but there are plenty of scientists who are stubborn to change their ideas, even in the face of evidence. especially if it's ideas/theories they developed themselves.
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This is ego, nothing more and nothing less, and they don't deserve to call themselves scientists if they do this. I'm not saying scientists are perfect, I'm just saying their profession dictates they must not deal in belief, and if some of them do, they are being unscientific. If a scientist is saying he believes aliens are definitely real, he is a fraud because it has never been observed. I think, as I've said, hypotheses and beliefs get confused very often, a scientist pursues something he does not know to be true because evidence has shown it is likely to be true, that is an hypothesis. A belief by definition is the acceptance of something that has absolutely no evidence to suggest it is true.