I think most statements stem from someone believing something to be true and so what's upheld as true is often what's generally accepted by multiple people saying/believing until its proved as false. No? We don't all have the time to test everything out. I think that's what this forum is for... I give props to those correcting bad information but I also think the truth correlates with 'general' popular opinion without needing science proving it.
Like we could replace the whole 'bro' thing with the n-bomb and suddenly people might be making a different type of sense out of what's being inferred by the term, taking various forms of offense, and I don't think I would need t be proven wrong about this very statement and any truth it might hold.
If I'm correct about my definition, then 'Bro science', whoever came up with the term, is an obvious knock to someone's process of reasoning, believing something without proof. I think a lot of us do so. And I'm no religious nut - I always do my best to accept what science proves - but I also know that science will always remain incomplete, leaving large gaps in the known universe in the minds of mankind as the cost of putting things to the test adds parameters that are hard to keep up with, time being one of them.
And so when people knock what science seems to say, you have to remember, amongst all of the master growers that studied botany at top universities and people using state of the art equipment to try and get to the bottom of fact vs fiction, there are people that develop other forms of wisdom and share it, coming from sources that science doesn't always account for. I think some of these old time growers in the PNW and certainly farmers from Morocco, Pakistan and Afghanistan, etc have learned things that would be difficult to prove using modern scientific methods but are likely being put to the test as we speak, and some will eventually end up labeled as 'bro science' when something comes along that works better, and some of it will prove correct.
But bro science then seems a term created by people who claim to hold scientific proof that some form of popular opinion or something accepted as generally true is false. I've noticed in many of these instances there is no proof. Just opinion and conflicts. I know the whole flush thing, its easily misunderstood and there are many beliefs in the cannabis community that are incorrect or outdated but I think there are other things science will never get to the bottom of.... All in all, the more I see this term, Bro seems a nicer ways of saying something is full of shit. In what I've learned, often what I'm being told is bullshit, isn't. You can't bulllshit a bullshitter.
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