Indeed. One need only look at this tweet which is not only factually wrong but entirely dismisses the field of linguistics, which through observation, measurement, and hypothesis can and has established that language and words evolve over time.https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/984608269460160512 …
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He commits in this case a reduction fallacy while undermining his own cause--namely the promotion of science as a research discipline--by undermining the labor of people in what he perceives to be less-hard fields.
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Implicit further in this tweet is the belief that things like "food" or "TV shows" are inherently less worthy, which simultaneously erases the fact that massive populations of humanity are starving while ignoring that media and art are as important to human growth as medicine.
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