RE: [EN/ES] What is science and what is not?/¿Qué es ciencia y qué no lo es?
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I studied logic and math before studying science. I was especially fond of Euclidean Geometry, Descartes Analytic Geometry and Newton's calculus. In other words, I take an old school approach to science.
I expect science to involve rigorous logical models with reproducible results.
Unfortunately, in public and political discourse, people are interested in the effects achieved by the arguments and not by the underlining structure. This means widespread misuse of the term.
This confusion of definitions happen with most terms. I am only perturbed when I encounter people who believe that a piece of propaganda is actually scientific.
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When one studies mathematical logic, even at an amateur level, internal light is turned on in the way of seeing and analyzing the world. As you say, there is a tendency to accept propaganda and not verify or reproduce what it proposes, the world lives very quickly and many, including those in the field of science, do not stop to analyze and spend time on it. As one of my university professors said "Thinking hurts and when you avoid pain you don't recognize the disease". Thanks for your comment.