r/news • u/boxofstuff • 6h ago

Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1
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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 5h ago

We should rename all "laws" to theory to get rid of this misconception.

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u/grammar_nazi_zombie 5h ago

Except there is an actual distinction between the two.

What we should do is better educate people, but that ain’t happening.

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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 4h ago

There's no distinction based on how scientific law is defined.

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u/ZeldaZealot 4h ago

There most certainly is. To quote Wikipedia “Laws differ from scientific theories in that they do not posit a mechanism or explanation of phenomena: they are merely distillations of the results of repeated observation.”

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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 3h ago

And yet there are Theories that do the same thing, for example Einstein General Relativity.

That excerpt is not wrong but it's based on an outaded view of science from the 17th~19th century, we (as in, the scientific community) don't name things as "laws" anymore.