• gayhobbes [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I haven't had a lot of scientist types get upset by it, but STEM fetishists who adulate scientists but know nothing about science? 100%.

            • gayhobbes [he/him]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              Well you can call me cellular respiration because I'm going to push into you so hard we're gonna make a ton of new fuckin molecules

      • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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        4 years ago

        I mean a lot of the scientists I know are like this too. Pretty much all naive realists who still think that falsfiability is the be all end all of the demarcation problem.

          • gayhobbes [he/him]
            hexagon
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            4 years ago

            It’s always the IFLS dorks who get all hung up on falsifiability. Most hardcore scientists I know don’t take science nearly as seriously as the science masturbating otaku do.

          • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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            4 years ago

            I didn't get one whiff of philosophy of science in either my undergrad or grad school science programs at R1s.

            I might just have been unlucky though.

    • evilgiraffemonkey [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      People who are scientistic (what would you call them? You can't call them scientists) are. Usually people who love science cause of Neil Degrasse Tyson or something, not actual scientists.

      • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Of all the things about a science to take pride in though - the purity?! I look back so fondly on getting high and talking about how molecules interacted with electrical forces, how the large Hadron collider works, or how many stars there are. I wish I did more of it nowadays. I'd go to a party get inebriated to find an ear that would listen to me babble about it in a different world. I would go back and kick myself if I let a meme like this get under my skin.