The scientific method also leads us down utterly wrong and horrible paths, sometimes for decades or even centuries (ie the utterly flawed lipid-heart-hypothesis by Ancel Keys which became dogma and we stopped eating eggs because of LDL cholesterol)...
We cannot afford even one such miserable detour with bitcoin.
building truths on myth and stories lead people to believe compoundingly wrong things, scientific method is the only reliable thing to build a structure of truth on.
The very point you’re making is part of a story you tell yourself about the enlightenment and the implied morally good quality you assign to the rationalist scientific method and technical exactitude prevailing over the previous forms of science and its second order effects on men. Everyone makes myths and can’t help but weave themselves into them. Everyone has a conception of the good they seek but don’t yet have and this is what provides the foundation of story, drama, myth. It’s self defeating to advance your position that we shouldn’t build on stories—in other words: Cool story bro.
