Disclaimer: we still have pragmatic reason to follow the evidence suggested by our best scientific theories. I’m just poking fun at scientists in the spirit of Hume. There’s no guarantee that the future will resemble the past, and even our best scientific theories are amenable to future evidence.
Philosophy memes are cool, in fact I’d love to see more of those. Philosophy memes that incorrectly make fun of other branches of science, not so much. Let’s get some Plato’s Cave in here, or make fun of Freud saying one thing but meaning your mother. Let’s not try to delegitimize other branches of science by pointing out solipsism.
To be fair though I do think it’s fun to have conversation around this matter, like discussing Brain-in-a-vat theory, where you can just accuse your opponent of being increasingly less real as the discussion goes on. But in the modern age of mis- and dis-information, you have to be careful how you approach those subjects. In this particular example it seems like you’re calling out the scientific method as Fake News, and while it’s a bit funny, it’s also a hot button topic for folks these days and will frequently be taken the wrong way because tons of idiots have ruined it for you long before you made this meme. Let’s please not give people another reason to distrust hard science.
If we can’t talk about hot button issues then what is the point of an anonymous forum? I might as well just regurgitate whatever view is palatable and bask in the universal agreement. While I have posted memes like that, the conversations in this post have been far more interesting.
Also, I anticipated any allegations of being a science denier by writing a disclaimer under the post. But my guess is most people either didn’t read that or don’t care.