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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 Mar 4

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      No, that's not it. We absolutely do need to fear bad ideas that gain great cultural currency & become a dominant in society. We need to reason with our own moral tribes when they become infected by this in both intellectual & political thought. https://twitter.com/cultofdusty/status/970414858045968387 …

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    2. Tris Mamone  🌹‏ @tmamone Mar 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Unpopular opinion: Trump scares me more than some dead gay French philosopher. Also, technically the postmodernists were right about the whole metanarrative thing. We’re pattern-seeking meaning-making creatures, so we have no choice but to construct our own realities

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 5
      Replying to @tmamone

      That's not unpopular but perfectly reasonable. The far-right scares me much more than the postmodern left too. The reason for trying to get postmodernism out of the left is so that it's fit for fighting the right.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose @tmamone

      Postmodernists were not right about metanarratives. There are a number of overarching explanations for things but this doesn't mean they're all wrong. Lyotard went for Christianity, Marxism & science. These things are not the same just because they're metanarratives.

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose @tmamone

      Creationism and evolution are both metanarratives. This does not mean we reject both and make up our own version of how humans came to exist. It means we examine the evidence and accept that which is best supported as provisionally true.

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    6. Tris Mamone  🌹‏ @tmamone Mar 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      That part’s true. 2+2=4 no matter who says it. However, it’s also true that science is often misused to back up personal biases. Scientific racism anyone? Oh wait, it’s called “race realism” nowadays.

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    7. Benedict White‏ @BenedictMPWhite Mar 5
      Replying to @tmamone @HPluckrose

      The thing is, with science, you can do experiments and gather data to both prove and disprove theories.

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    8. Tris Mamone  🌹‏ @tmamone Mar 5
      Replying to @BenedictMPWhite @HPluckrose

      I ain’t saying science must fall. I’m just saying anyone can cherry pick whatever facts best support their presuppositions.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 5
      Replying to @tmamone @BenedictMPWhite

      But is there a method of obtaining knowledge where this can't happen? This is what people do. At least, science has various methods of peer review and replication & falsification which limits this. So much of other methods is unfalsifiable.

      5:50 AM - 5 Mar 2018
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        2. Tris Mamone  🌹‏ @tmamone Mar 5
          Replying to @HPluckrose @BenedictMPWhite

          I think we might be talking about two different things. Maybe it’s my autism making it hard for me to find the right magical combination of words to get my point across. Here’s it all in black and white: Science good. Biases bad. Question and test everything!

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        3. Benedict White‏ @BenedictMPWhite Mar 5
          Replying to @tmamone @HPluckrose

          Yes. Science allows you to test theories and debunk poor ones.

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        4. Tris Mamone  🌹‏ @tmamone Mar 5
          Replying to @BenedictMPWhite @HPluckrose

          My whole thesis was that science is like a hammer. You can use it to strike idols to see if they’re hollow and need to be smashed...or you can bludgeon someone’s brains out with it.

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