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Seems to me that scientists themselves almost never say this sort of thing. IME they usually have a more nuanced view of what science is/does/doesn’t do than “science is True” Seems mainly to come from popularizers, “science Geeks”, and people signaling political alliances?

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there’s a really bizarre conceptual gerrymandering thing happening here with what’s allowed into the “science” boundary. people want to take the glamor that, like, general relativity has and apply it to, like, social psychology. absolute insanity to use the same word for both

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Agreed, it’s not well bounded. And tools (broadly), techniques, knowledge, people, technologies etc cross contexts and blur the boundaries further. I think cargo-culting is (sometimes) a good analogy for this, in some social sciences.