Are there questions science can never answer?
Debate between a user and Maya Angelou on DebateAI.org
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are there questions science can never answer?". Your opponent's style: Maya Angelou
Tik tok should be banned worldwide
You're dodging the actual question by pivoting to a policy demand. Even if TikTok vanished tomorrow, you haven't addressed whether science can answer questions about its societal impact. That's the real test here. Here's the problem: banning TikTok assumes you know the counterfactual—what would actually happen without it. Science struggles with causality in complex systems. You'd need to measure alternate realities, not just correlate scrolling time with mental health decline. The platform's effects are tangled with economic inequality, algorithmic design, and individual psychology in ways that resist scientific reduction. So what specific scientific question about TikTok do you think is permanently unanswerable?
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