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Which is why science always wins
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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to a large degree our understanding of scientific truth is shaped by corporate interest. i find science-minded people to not actually be very intelligent people: they do things like treat MLA Standard like truth and foolishly lock themselves from evolving further. also their rigorous and analytical behaviors remove them from inquiry into emotionality and the sensory experience so much as to render them philistine
i prefer philosophers and artists (writers) personally, or, shit, nurses and gardeners: they seem to be caring wild amounts of Truth in them
edit: "caring" was a typo but i like it so im leaving it lol
hmm, well Descartes invented science (in a dream, lol @ philosophical materialists) and would likely agree with me just like pretty much anyone in the world of intellectualism
i'm cherishing my downvotes here, please bestow them onto me, because i know that they are a reflection of my — as you put it — "unique take" dissenting from the masses. but i know what the masses are like: watch Jerry Springer and see for yourself. and i also know what the Sciences are like: i work in Science. and i think that this 110-iq habit of deifying Science is parasitic and the same institutional worship as the church. on top of that, half of the people doing it are working off outdated frameworks like Classical Physics and have created their own religion that rivals contemporary evangelism in its dogmatic-and-unproductive nature.
sorry, philistinism just pisses me off. read Deleuze or study metaphysics or something.
ad hominem means that you can't negate my argument
still just ad hominems
to be clear, this is my argument:
"pro-science" has come to represent a type of behavior in people that, much like the evangelicals, exerts this dogmatic-and-unproductive understanding of the world, and with utmost faith to an outdated portion of the western cannon. and beyond that, it lends itself to corporate interest by nature of corporate being the ones who fund scientific studies
i don't really have interest in taking this conversation beyond that. i realize that this argument is new to you, and that it's scares you, and i'm sorry for that. you can have the last words and i just hope for readers to take my argument for what it is.
What you're probably noticing is that a lot of people don't have the ability or tools to figure out how the world works themselves. So like we always have done as a species we defer to those that claim to know the answers we seek. It used to be that religion was the place we would get those answers. Nowadays science and the scientific method has been shown to be the most effective and reliable source for answers about the world, time and time again. So people "blindly follow" science because it has been shown to be the best and most trustworthy source of information. Not to say it is perfect in every way, but there isn't anything else even slightly close to it's ability to give concrete answers about the universe.
This is such a fabulously stupid position.
Like how nutrition science is in such a pathetic state because of the literally billions of dollars Coke has spent perverting global scientific research. They release the results that benefit them and eat the ones that don't. In isolation, everything they release is genuine if bad faith science, but taken as a body, it leads us in exactly the wrong direction.
facts. and let's not forget that the way corporate-funded science played both Sugar and Cigarettes resulted in a massive body count.