 the scientific method is largely an empirical method it's based on observation and when we observe nature what we are observing is the behavior of nature when we see a billard ball hit another that's a behavior of matter and what science then does it analyzes these observations and tries to extract the patterns and regularities of the behavior of physical nature as it presents itself on the screen of perception conscious perception so at the end we end up with predictive models of nature's behavior we know that if we put things together this and that way we will get this and that effect and these predictive models are the heart of technology we use these models to develop technology because we know how nature behaves and then we can put that behavior to use to our advantage and and because of the success of technology science has acquired enormous cachet in our culture as the enabler of the technologies that extend and improve our lives and this is all fair enough but science says nothing about the intrinsic nature of the physical it only analyzes behavior in differential terms in terms of patterns of differences bear differences for instance what is a positive electric charge it is that which is not a negative electric charge because it behaves in a symmetrical opposite way that's all science does but what is a charge intrinsically what is the nature of a charge science has nothing to say about it it's fundamentally outside the scope of the scientific method the intrinsic nature of being of existence is a question of ontology a question of philosophy which has a broader less precise but a broader method that's not based only on perceptual observation it's based on logic also based on empirical consistency it's based on certain values like parsimony you try to make sense of things with the least number of postulates and it requires a certain way of thinking and a basic level of acquaintance with the literature that lots of scientists don't have some do have but lots of them especially the very vocal ones on the media a lot of them don't have they don't even they're not even aware of this fundamental distinction so they ended they end up thinking that science itself is a philosophy why it has nothing to say about the intrinsic nature of things and then they spill out nonsense bullshit if you forgive my english some of this gentleman we just saw on that video are guilty of this of being very ignorant of the issues of philosophy and then doing pseudo pseudo philosophy