It seems dangerous to say, before running the experiment, that there is a “scientific belief” about the result.
I don’t understand what the danger is. It seems just true that there is a scientific belief about the result in this case.
But if you already know the “scientific belief” about the result, why bother to run the experiment?
I can see immediately two reasons, namely because
scientific beliefs can be wrong, and
the only way to strengthened scientific beliefs is by experiments that could have falsified them.
I don’t understand what the danger is. It seems just true that there is a scientific belief about the result in this case.
I can see immediately two reasons, namely because
scientific beliefs can be wrong, and
the only way to strengthened scientific beliefs is by experiments that could have falsified them.