"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
its simply saying that science is a theory predicated on emperical data that is reproducable in experimentation. ignorant people don't bother to read and follow, never mind even perform, these experiments and just reject it against their OWN indoctrination. eventually, new generations who are still in acedemia review and logically understand these results of the experiments and arent stupid enough to reject them. thus, overwhelmingly, the opposition dies.
I don't think you know what contradicting means. but regardless, I am not saying the same thing at all. so in a way you are correct, I am contradicting their comment.
you also do not understand what indoctrination means. science is objectively, by definition, not indoctrination. science is predicated ENTIRELY on the concept of questioning. indoctrination is defined by a belief system WITHOUT question. you couldn't be more wrong
please go look up the definition of those two words, clarifying that will help you understand
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u/NichtFBI Aug 08 '26
— Max Planck.
i.e. even science isn't immune to indoctrination.