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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 7

      Health Nerd Retweeted Richard Dawkins

      This is just a confusion in terms: "Science" = process by which humans examine the universe "Facts" = truths about the universe that cannot be altered Science is by definition constructed. Facts are nothttps://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1368259842222268421 …

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      Richard DawkinsVerified account @RichardDawkins
      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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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 7

      My first degree was a double major in psychology and the philosophy of science, and I love this stuff. The idea that science is some fixed system breaks down remarkably easy

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 7

      One brilliant exercise - take a list of fields and classify them into science, pseudoscience, and not science This is usually fairly easy! Now, try and describe ~why~ things fall into the categories they do MUCH harderpic.twitter.com/Wh05mptVUk

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 7

          Many scientific disciplines were created by charlatans and used for purposes that we would now describe as pseudoscientific. In the 1800s, some pseudoscientific areas were more on the ball than "traditional" medicine

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 7

          And large parts of what we now mark as the imprimatur of "science" - white coats, labs, PhDs - are more historical than they are an essential part of the process

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 7

          Then we have the areas that use what we'd usually consider as the "scientific method" - sociology, anthropology - but lack the certainty that physics gives us. They don't fit the classical mold of "science", but they do still do things scientifically

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 7

          Anyway, the second you actually start to try and define the rules that govern why some things are considered science and others are not, you realize that a lot of it is pretty arbitrary

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        6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 7

          When Dawkins says that "science" is not socially constructed, what he means is that there are objectively true facts and that these are immutable, but the reality is that our system for discovering those facts cannot ever be without some construction

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        7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 7

          Yes, he partially clarified this, but the important point is not about whether there is or isn't an objective reality, but whether our system for examining that reality is objective

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