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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

science is science. it can be (sometimes necessarily) prioritized via societal influence, culture and monetary means.

socialist countries have different types scientific spend but I don't see femboys taking things in the ass for them I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

And under socialism in the 20th century, science was an institution that only funds research that advances whatever narrative the hermetic powers-that-be decided to push and strengthen their grip on power, their obsession with secretiveness and projecting an image of infallibility.

Take the Soviet Union.
T.D. Lysenko and his crackpot food engineering ideas is one such glaring example. But boy oh boy could he talk a "toe the party line" game and suck up to Stalin.
Or how about how the kremlin rendered nearly one quarter of Kazakhstan uninhabitable due to their relentless nuclear testing. And they nearly did that for all of western Europe with Chernobyl.

In the name of workers and science, we shall poison your land. Science for the workers' paradise, rejoice, comrades!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Even if you follow the rules strictly, confirmation bias can kick in... which is basically "always" because you have to start somewhere and will think a certain way.

Based on that argument, why bother? /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Nihilism is fun! Science as a framework for truth seeking, and big S Science are functionally different things. Nobody is making the argument that Science is free from political or economic bias, or even that empiricism is the sole arbiter of truth. Literally just finish reading Kant, I'll wait.

On the other hand, you can look at the world and very plainly see that science... does things. It discovers truth with a far better track record than every other imperfect epistemology. But sure, capitalism bad. Twitter man cringe. And the internet is just like, an opinion, or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (15 children)

Does anybody understand what this meme is trying to say? I feel like its pretty obvious

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Critical theory, my beloved

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (10 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

scientists are like gold prospectors dependent on assayers for their continuing in the mine

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