#Scientism

A long thread on the French Socialists' 1981 program, which has some amazingly based partsFirst, they insisted we have to overcome the "crisis in science" (which is not a post-2015
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A thread of incomplete theses I believe to be true as of of 06/15: If you have only vocational ends in mind, you probably shouldn’t go to college. There’s a
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We read Albright & @ThomasM51526161, 2000, for a lab meeting recently. Highly recommended. Something that particularly struck me was the discussion of why Donald Campbell prioritized internal validityhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs
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This is a case study in the truthy claptrap that's now standard in American subscription-driven journalism (as well as parochial American projection).As we'll see, not only is the headline argument
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What? I'm not sure where you are getting your information from or what Americans you hang out with when you visit, but I don't know anyone who fits this description.
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This op-ed is a great example of the wrong-headed scientism of school-must-open-now advocates.A thread.https://www.vox.com/2021/2/15/22280763/kids-covid-vaccine-teachers-unions-schools-reopening-cdc The article starts with a gesture towards
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#rant timeI love Academic AgentBut his recent crusade against Managerial Elites is misguided. Fortunately in his latest vid, you can just about see professional activists shining from behind the thinning
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Unfortunately, true scientific method, like true Christianity, true democratic representative government and true capitalism, has gone into hiding, being practiced only by a few true believers. The “science” practiced now
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How good are you feeling if you're Xi Jinping right now? Your virus has the Western world teetering on the edge of more economy-killing lockdowns. Your man Joe Biden is
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Reading GH's Skirmish piece on The Noumenon. Ten pages in there has been precisely zero philosophical content of note Lots of academic nano-history and hand-wringing on stylistic matters, though The
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My view of the plausibility of theism and atheism:- A long time ago atheism wasn’t intellectually defensible.- Modern philosophy and science exposed flaws in the old grounds for theistic belief.-
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1/ Did you know that anti-vaxxers aren't a new thing? It actually has deep origins in the anti-science movements of the 1600's.. a thread 2/William Blake in the 1700's-1800's reacted
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101 BS THINGS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS, 1That correlation is a measure of relationship betw 2 variables. It is very rarely so.Few understand how correlation requires 1) no subsampling, 2) strict
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Recent rhetoric about “The Enlightenment” is bizarre. A major strand of the Enlightment was about the Perfectibility of Man through Reason. The revolutionary reconstruction of society. The French Revolution is
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One can see a microcosm of the current state of Christianity in America in my own family. When I talk to my family about Christianity, it feels like talking to
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okay here we go - some summary + some of mine own thoughtshttps://twitter.com/yung_shishtov/status/1331122568904855553?s=20 so the book focuses on the 6 realms of existence/rebirth (i.e. samsara) and explains ways in which
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