Reddit mentions of What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty (Edge Question Series)

Vice comes off as hilariously naive in that post. "Every year, the online magazine Edge--the so-called smartest website in the world, helmed by science impresario John Brockman--asks top scientists, technologists, writers, and academics to weigh in on a single question...And the list is long. Like, book-length long."

Um, Brockman is a literary agent and publisher. Some or all of those folks are his clients. Every year he sells the answers, indeed in book form. Not that that's bad or that Brockman isn't interested in science, but come on, Vice, let's frame things realistically.

Also there are things that cant be explained thought scientific method

http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/scientific-method10.htm|

What We Believe but Cannot Prove:

http://www.amazon.com/What-Believe-but-Cannot-Prove/dp/0060841818

Oh shit I have this book

I had a similar thought after reading What we believe but cannot prove.

When public speaking and someone laughs, how do you know they aren't laughing at you?

When we are talking about something irrational, yes.

For good examples of rational things people believe that they cannot prove, see the book of the similar name.

I, for instance, believe that the nature of the universe is entirely understandable, and that the creatures that we become will eventually have the ability to answer any meaningful question.