{"product_id":"future-proof-science","title":"Future-proof Science","description":"Is science getting at the truth? The sceptics - those who spread doubt about science - often employ a simple argument: scientists were ''sure'' in the past, and then they ended up being wrong. Through a combination of historical investigation and philosophical-sociological analysis, Identifying Future-Proof Science defends science against this potentially dangerous scepticism. Indeed, we can confidently identify many scientific claims that are future-proof: they will last forever, so long as science continues. How do we identify future-proof claims? This appears to be a new question for science scholars, and not an unimportant one. Peter Vickers argues that the best way to identify future-proof science is to avoid any attempt to analyse the relevant first-order scientific evidence, instead focusing purely on second-order evidence. Specifically, a scientific claim is future-proof when the relevant scientific community is large, international, and diverse, and at least 95% of that community would describe the claim as a ''scientific fact''. In the entire history of science, no claim meeting these criteria has ever been overturned, despite enormous opportunity.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312924893566,"sku":"NW9780192862730","price":90.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780192862730.jpg?v=1778590195","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/future-proof-science","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}