On the nature of scientific proof

Since it’s going to come up a lot and be a potential point of discussion on pretty much every post I make here, I’ve written a page (linked in the sidebar navigation) on The nature of proof. It discusses the semantics of what we mean by “proof” in a scientific context.

TL;DR: Each proof I post isn’t meant to be stand-alone, irrefutable, ironclad evidence of absolute truth that the Earth is a globe. What they are, are experiments and observations that are consistent with a spherical Earth, and more or less inconsistent with a straightforward Flat Earth model. You might be able to make them fit a Flat Earth model with some ad-hoc tweaking or conspiracy theories – but overall the spherical Earth model is a much simpler explanation.

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