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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Silvio Capobianco‏ @capobianco_slv Jun 3
      Replying to @femalestuds @michaelshermer and

      Just in case you didn't notice: our right to speak does not translate into anyone's duty to listen.

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    2. Bimbos&BodyBuilders‏ @femalestuds Jun 3
      Replying to @capobianco_slv @michaelshermer and

      In case you didn’t notice blocking people for arguing with your friend is about the nostvintekkectually lazy and dishonest and pathetic thing I can think except for maybe defending someone who does that. But thanks for coming out chief 🙄

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    3. Bimbos&BodyBuilders‏ @femalestuds Jun 3
      Replying to @femalestuds @capobianco_slv and

      * most intellectually

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    4. Decadence, Debauchery & Nihilism‏ @SOhawkins21 Jun 3
      Replying to @femalestuds @capobianco_slv and

      What I find interesting is that the IDW, who claim to engage in open discourse, has a following who really can’t think for themselves. Their ideas has to align with at least one person from the IDW, and any criticism automatically makes you a postmodernist.

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jun 3
      Replying to @SOhawkins21 @femalestuds and

      Also, the IDW has no idea what postmodernism really is, as becomes apparent when you read its members' critiques of it. They attack a straw man so massive that, were you to set it on fire, the crew of the International Space Station could see it.

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    6. Decadence, Debauchery & Nihilism‏ @SOhawkins21 Jun 3
      Replying to @gorskon @femalestuds and

      😂😂😂yeah I agree. I think the criticism of it is overly simplified. I don’t agree w/everything postmodernist say, but I’m also not going to denigrate an entire field of study & scholarship simply because of political differences; while placing science on the top of the alter

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 3
      Replying to @SOhawkins21 @gorskon and

      I don't think most people do denigrate an entire field tho. I addressed that here in the section about accusations of reductionism.https://areomagazine.com/2018/02/07/no-postmodernism-is-not-dead-and-other-misconceptions/ …

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 3
      Replying to @HPluckrose @SOhawkins21 and

      No-one is criticising postmodern architecture because it doesn't matter. It is a few key ideas which have evolved through successive waves of critical theory, entered activism trading on the good name of feminism, civil rights movement etc & impacted mainstream social conscience.

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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 3
      Replying to @HPluckrose @SOhawkins21 and

      And science simply is the best method we have for establishing what is (provisionally) true. I'm not very interested in it and way more so in politics and culture but it is the best skeptical, critical method going.

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    10. Decadence, Debauchery & Nihilism‏ @SOhawkins21 Jun 3
      Replying to @HPluckrose @gorskon and

      Sure, I think science should be valued and accepted. But it’s one form of inquiry that we have and it’s very important. That said, science can’t and shouldn’t solve every issue. There is such a thing as scientism and scientific overreach.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 3
      Replying to @SOhawkins21 @gorskon @capobianco_slv

      Do many people claim science can solve every issue. Surely, it just tells us what is true on various, factual levels and is more likely to be right than other methods. Evidence-based knowledge over standpoint theory, for example.

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        2. Decadence, Debauchery & Nihilism‏ @SOhawkins21 Jun 3
          Replying to @HPluckrose @gorskon @capobianco_slv

          Scientism has occurred in the past and I think it re-emerged with the advent of new atheism. Every great thing you have to say about science is something I’ll agree with (just look at my bio). But I’m also someone who questions everything before accepting it as fact.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 3
          Replying to @SOhawkins21 @gorskon @capobianco_slv

          I don't agree about the New Atheists but I do think questioning everything and accepting that knowledge is always provisional and making efforts to disprove things we thought were true are central to science.

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        4. Decadence, Debauchery & Nihilism‏ @SOhawkins21 Jun 3
          Replying to @HPluckrose @gorskon @capobianco_slv

          I’ll exclude Harris, Dennett, & Hitchens from my original claim. But I’ve witnessed it w/Krauss, Shermer, Dawkins, Pinker, and at times N.G. Tyson. And it pains me because I’m fans of virtually all of them.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 3
          Replying to @SOhawkins21 @gorskon @capobianco_slv

          Scientism in Pinker?

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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 3
          Replying to @SOhawkins21 @gorskon @capobianco_slv

          That appears to be an uncharitable reading of this which is much more nuanced and could not justly be called 'scientism' in the sense that it is criticised. Believing science already has all the answers.https://newrepublic.com/article/114127/science-not-enemy-humanities …

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        8. Decadence, Debauchery & Nihilism‏ @SOhawkins21 Jun 3
          Replying to @HPluckrose @gorskon @capobianco_slv

          I’ve read that one and I agree. But these people are human beings too and capable of the same mistakes we all make. I don’t think Pinker is as bad as Krauss tho. In my view, Krauss makes science seem ideological to me, which is something I thought was impossible.

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        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 3
          Replying to @SOhawkins21 @gorskon @capobianco_slv

          I'm afraid I haven't followed Krauss much.

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