wedrifid comments on Outside the Laboratory - Less Wrong
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Placing a warning flag onto a theist scientist's work would only be justified if you had evidence in support of the claim: P ( good science | scientist is theist ) < P ( good science ) .
Less Wrong provides many excellent philosophical examples in support of that claim. But what about real world examples? Do theist scientists actually tend to do lower-quality science?
Don't confuse a prior with a priori. ;)
Fixed. Thanks. I didn't realize that my statement read, "A priori reasoning can only be justified if it's a posteriori."
Edit: so what about my actual statement? Or, are we done having this discussion?