@MC_Maurer @RaccoonSkeptic right, but you said science "strives for objectivity," but science doest "strive" for anything, it's-
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Science can assist social justice eg by inventing contraception. We have to talk about the ethics of using it.
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it can't tell you what is or isn't ethical but once u decide you can then use science to determine how to go about achieving it
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Yes, science can provide things that can be used to help or harm. Then people can talk about whether they shld do this.
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you do experiments, collect data, same as everything else you study using the scientific method. In fact social psychology,
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anthropology etc study these things.
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Oh yes, social science can do these things. Not at all the same as the physical sciences. This tends to be ideological.
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the methods used are the same, it's all under the umbrella of science. Psychology is subtype of biology, neuroscience, etc.
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No, they're not. Most of social science is an embarrassment. My daughter is a medical anthropologist. Not allowed to use science.
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Actually the evolutionary anthropologists use science but the cultural anthropologists are furious about it.
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I don't really know much about anthropology. Psychology and social psychology are all based on science
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Really? I got a lot of Freud and feminism in mine.
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