Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.
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Given the great work you do at science based medicine I can’t believe you haven’t identified the danger here. “X is a social construction” is usually used to avoid critiquing scientific arguments/problems that relate to that construction. Blank statist are similar.
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"The social constructionist idea that because something is a social construction we shouldn’t take it seriously is a dangerous idea." It's also not a social constructionist idea. Social constructionists take socially-constructed things very seriously.
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Nice straw man ya got there. I never said that.
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You don't, but others clearly are, and Dawkins is responding to them not to you
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The process of science does require iteration and refinement of theories to discover how things *really* work, but there is an objective truth to discover, and that truth is not a social construct, and it certainly doesn't care about our feelings or what we want to be true.
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Institutions like university science departments are social constructs. But the laws of the universe are not. So we are left to decide what the purpose of a science department is and how it can best meet its goals.
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