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[-] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

I used to be a scientist and I'm a science teacher now, and science is 100% a social construct. I could go through examples of how our modern interpretation of science is based on western philosophy that is a few thousand years younger than science itself as a practice, and how this limits the scope of modern science in a materially significant way. I could go into other examples too. But you really should just go watch Dr.Fatima's two videos "Gravity is a Social Construct, and That's Okay", and "Astronomy has a Colonialism Problem" on YouTube, because she does the most phenomenal exploration of the topic, and I could only (poorly) approximate the quality of her work here.

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