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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. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 11 Apr 2017

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted (((Christian JB)))  🐌

      Also, anti-science social scientists like to claim vaguely that all bad ideas were natural science when actually many were social science.https://twitter.com/christianjbdev/status/851812545681915907 …

      Helen Pluckrose added,

      (((Christian JB)))  🐌 @christianjbdev
      Replying to @christianjbdev @Lollardfish
      Some have used bad or misunderstood-history to justify bad acts like some have used bad or misunderstood science to justify bad acts.
      3 replies 11 retweets 20 likes
    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 11 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      If you look at eg the history of scientific racism you find a lot of anthropologists, sociologists & philosophers not being very scientific

      2 replies 10 retweets 16 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 11 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      You get a lot of biologists & physicians too, obv, and its only comparatively recently that the disciplines have distinguished themselves.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 11 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      So, it can be hard to tell in the 19th century what ppl were actually doing &identify individuals as natural scientists or social scientists

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 11 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      They certainly called it 'science' a lot but I'm not sure we'd recognise it as such now. Emile Zola considered himself to be doing science.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 11 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      He saw his novels as an experiment in which he'd place characters & see what they did & then draw conclusions abt human nature from this.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 11 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Of course, scientists looked askance at this claim even then.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 11 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      But I haven't studied 19th century history since undergrad so am limited. But there was a definite tendency to ascribe bad ideas to science.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 11 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      When often what ppl were doing was observing grps in society &coming up with moralistic ideas abt race & gender which is more social science

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 11 Apr 2017

      Their conclusions not today's social scientists' fault but neither do they get to dump all the bad stuff at the door of science & blame it.

      9:52 AM - 11 Apr 2017
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        2. 少年听雨歌楼上‏ @RosesofE 12 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Also a lot of times ppl with terrible ideas want to have the respectability of science, so they claim science supported their ideas.

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        3. 少年听雨歌楼上‏ @RosesofE 12 Apr 2017
          Replying to @RosesofE @HPluckrose

          Pretty sure scientific racism existed because racism existed first and racists were looking for justifications.

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