https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/177rsze/a_mural_in_the_science_faculty_of_my_countrys/

https://radiolab.org/podcast/library-alexandra

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    And again, who are you suggesting should be the arbiter?

    Are you suggesting there should be no arbiter?

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        That arbiter is not doing a good job considering the proliferation of antivax, race "science," and climate change denialism, among other things.

        Feel as above the fray as you like, but normalizing the mass distribution of junk/shit or otherwise false science under some lofty ideal of "the free marketplace of ideas will select for the correct data" is clearly, demonstratively, and repeatedly not doing that and hasn't in the past either.

        • Chetzemoka@startrek.website
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          9 months ago

          You have utterly no idea what's even present in scientific publications. Antivax and climate change denialism are not rampant in published science. They're rampant amongst ignorant members of the public. That's not even remotely the fault of science.

          And here's a summary of the current state of race science:

          "Race does not stand up scientifically, period."

          https://www.scribd.com/article/350285350/What-Both-The-Left-And-Right-Get-Wrong-About-Race

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            9 months ago

            Someone else responded better than I could to what amounts of your wall of arrogance that was toward someone with an opinion and a take so similar to yours that it applies to you as well.

            Every single time someone does a report on crime and breaks down data by race you're seeing racist social science in action. The way we do clinical trials. Decisions about what to study, like the impacts of lead, or education, or pharmaceuticals, all of it lies on top of and interpermeates racist superstructure. Recent? Forced hysterectomies. Public statements from researchers that genetics are not politically correct. Mauna Kea. Environmental impact studies in Guam. I mean, it's never ending.

            • Chetzemoka@startrek.website
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              9 months ago

              It's not never ending. We're very critical of the racism and sexism in medical research. And the younger generations of doctors are far more aware of it.

              We used to butcher women in radical mastectomy surgeries and we don't do that anymore. We used to do medical experiments on black Americans without telling them and we don't do that anymore. For everything that you can point to as a current problem, I can point to another thing that used to be a problem and now has been corrected.

              And still none of that has anything to do with physics, chemistry, materials science, geology, oceanography. You can't just say "racism impacts some sciences therefore we shouldn't do science at all"

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                9 months ago

                We're very critical of the racism and sexism in medical research.

                You're demonstratably actively and overtly ignoring examples given to you, right now, showing just how flawed your claimed "critical" status is of such issues.

                And still none of that has anything to do with physics, chemistry, materials science, geology, oceanography.

                Yes, you have that ivory tower of yours crammed so high that you're willfully ignoring intersectional issues that do affect the application, interpretation, even the funding and political will to allocate resources to such fields.

                For everything that you can point to as a current problem, I can point to another thing that used to be a problem and now has been corrected.

                That only demonstrates that correcting the process and actively rejecting bad/false science requires ongoing vigilance, not smug and arrogant dismissal of concerns.

                therefore we shouldn't do science at all

                No one said that and you're willfully ignorant at this point.

                  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                    9 months ago

                    You think it's anti-intellectual to address intersectional society-wide concerns? Is it truly "intellectual" to pretend that they didn't happen or that they only happened in the past? ok

                    It is the pinnacle of ideological arrogance to believe that scientific fields, as practiced by scientists, exist in perfectly sealed vacuums that require no interaction with government or society and that every experiment that is funded, all research undertaken, is powered by sheer scientific purity instead of the unfortunate material realities of funding and decisions made of "what" is researched and for how long.

                    It does affect all of the above fields if funding and resources are wasted in pursuit of junk science. Announcing that such junk should be "free" and distributed out there under the belief that it will magically be banished by the light of truth and cease being distributed entirely because it is wrong with no other actions necessary is willful ideological ignorance.

                      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                        9 months ago

                        this child

                        Assuming people that disagree with you are children, and using that for insult purposes only demonstrates your contempt, even hatred, of children.

                        You failed to address what I talked about so of course I repeated myself. You had nothing to respond to but your own arrogant dismissal of issues and your empty sense of superiority.

                          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                            9 months ago

                            So much for your fedora-tipping farewell. You needed to add just how not mad you are at having uncomfortable issues brought up that you failed to address.

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                              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                                9 months ago

                                No I'm just amusing myself

                                You're trying to win a last word game while demonstrating how very not mad you are in the most transparent way possible.

                                You had nothing from the start but your bloviating arrogance, and now you have nothing left but enraged immaturity after calling me a child (because children are contemptible to you, Redditbrained as you are).

                                Since you're not posting anything of value (and didn't do so before) I'll just repost a reflection of what you're continuing to do.

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