Our deep impulse to seek closure, certainty, and finality — especially in the realm of health and science – is extremely powerful.
To live for an extended period without these things means inhabiting that insecure mental terrain where questions remain unanswered, where solutions are partial, where causation is rarely proven with complete certainty, and where one day’s “truth” can quickly disappear with the emergence of some new revelation.
Truth, in short, is a process, not a sacrament.
What was “true” may no longer be “true.”
Wouldn’t this be as good a time as any to finally accept the transitory nature of scientific inquiry and recognize that real scientific literacy requires a tolerance and acceptance of this uncertainty?
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