dunno who needs to hear this but the triumphs of e.g. Galileo and many others portrayed as emblematic of the inexorable progress of the marketplace of ideas were politically accomplished and historically contingent; anything else is pure ideology. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_anarchism https://twitter.com/zunguzungu/status/1282321771727777792

. @frimairist had a great idea for an undergrad class that teaches the branching-ness and path dependence (as opposed to teleology) of science--through things like lamarckism--that would have been really useful!

great thread. I'd add: notion of objectivity vs bias is often useless here. if we knew the "objective" perspective, from which deviation is bias, we wdn't have to do science in the 1st place! much more useful to talk *priors* and whether they're justified https://twitter.com/itsbirdemic/status/1288158121366609921?s=19