Postmodernist claims that science is naive always seem to be rooted in a very naive understanding of science.
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I'm all for good faith discussions of how science is culturally predicated, flawed, etc. But it's rarely what people want.
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It's usually an excuse to embrace the bits of science whose implications they like and dismiss those they don't
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Yes, very often. In my circles in English & history, it tends to also be a wish to disparage science as a whole w/out understanding it.
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Often due to a feeling of antithetical methods & rivalry. They want to say speculative things w/out evidence & feel science disapproves.
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As tho there are scientists lying in wait to pounce on a claim and ask what evidence there is for it, how it has been tested & replicated.
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I've not found this to be the case. Scientists tend to enjoy literature and varied ways of reading it too. They can be very black & white.
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Useful knowledge requires no metaphysical claims.
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Postmodernists believe that basically everything is a social construct except power. Hence everything is interpreted as oppressor/oppressed.
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So when they look at anything, they ask who gains power from it. Then they extrapolate an oppression dynamic from there. Even math/science.
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It's why postmodernism is an especially toxic form of anti-intellectualism. They don't just oppose reason when it conflicts with their ideas
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They oppose the existence of reason itself. Reason is a social construct. Logic, too. They haven't said it yet, but give it a few years.
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If reason doesn't yield equality, then they will ascribe it to an oppressor group and claim it's just a social construct and bid for power.
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They're just drawing logical conclusions from their foundational assumptions: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/teaching-maths-white-privilege-illinois-university-professor-rochelle-gutierrez-a8018521.html …
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