[Interview] True Nature of Science and Skepticism with Professor Peter Vickers

In this interview, Professor Peter Vickers and I talk about the scientific method, its true nature and its place in modern society. We talk about the philosophy of science, how scientific consensus works and how it can be made better. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:10 - Meet Peter Vickers 00:03:35 - Philosophy of Science. What is it and how it's done 00:06:04 - End of Science 00:08:10 - Demarcation between good and bad science 00:16:33 - "I don't know" as a valid answer 00:12:37 - Facts VS Theories 00:31:03 - Scientific consensus 00:40:33 - Skepticism 01:00:38 - Can we make scientific consensus better 01:05:32 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/EdwiNnWIuKo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast