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Topic: Science

Definition: Beliefs about what is known about the natural world and how.

📁 Sub-topics

Topic	Beliefs beneath	What it covers
Animals	2	Animals covers what is known about how other animals think, feel and behave, and how much their inner lives resemble ours.
Astronomy	2	Astronomy covers what is known about planets, stars, galaxies and the universe beyond Earth, including whether life exists elsewhere.
Climate	2	Climate covers what is known about how Earth's climate works, how much it is changing, why, and what can be predicted about it.
Engineering	2	Engineering covers what is known about designing and building machines, structures and systems that work reliably in the real world.
Physics	2	Physics covers what is known about matter, energy, space and time, and how far its current theories and big experiments can be trusted.

📋 Beliefs filed beneath this topic

Under	Belief	Truth	Belief score
Animals	Fish clearly feel pain in a way that matters, not just a reflex to avoid harm.	0.50	+0.00
Animals	Claims that apes and parrots understand language generally reflect human wishful thinking rather than real ability.	0.50	+0.00
Engineering	Self-driving cars can clearly be made safer than human drivers on ordinary roads.	0.50	+0.00
Engineering	Adding automation to critical systems tends to create new kinds of failure that are harder to catch than the ones it removes.	0.50	+0.00
Climate	Human activity is clearly the main cause of the warming seen over the past century.	0.50	+0.00
Climate	Scientists and agencies who publish regional and local climate forecasts generally present them with more confidence than the climate models behind them have earned.	0.50	+0.00
Physics	String theory has clearly failed to earn the central place it holds in physics.	0.50	+0.00
Physics	Building a new, larger particle collider is clearly worth its cost for what it could reveal.	0.50	+0.00
Astronomy	Simple life exists on many planets in our galaxy.	0.50	+0.00
Astronomy	Technology-building intelligent life has arisen on very few worlds in our galaxy besides Earth.	0.50	+0.00

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