Postmodernist claims that science is naive always seem to be rooted in a very naive understanding of science.
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They seem to think that they alone are aware of error & bias & a certain unavoidable arbitrariness to objects of study.
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They don't seem to realise the field of science has considered this & sought & found ways to reduce this & self-correct & continues to do so
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Rather than blethering on about the inaccessibility of obtaining pure objective knowledge so let's give up and embrace the mess. Let's not.
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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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