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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
“Science,” as in the entity referred to in sentences such as “listen to the Science” or “i fucking love Science,” is a divination method; an oracle; a priesthood; an angry god who must be appeased; a volcano into which the appropriate sacrifices must be thrown
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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Replying to @nosilverv
“Science” as used in sentences like these is literally straight up just a cargo cult
5:51 PM · Apr 6, 2021Twitter for iPad
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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from its etymology we learn that Science is the god of separation, the symbol of His holy office the surgeon’s knife. by His will we separate thoughts from feelings, hearts from minds, minds from bodies, bodies from nature, nature from god
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Lucre Snooker
@LucreSnooker
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i will say a word in defense of the much despised "i fucking love science" -- it's really just a way of trying to raise the status of science in our culture and normalize the expression of enthusiasm for things we take for granted but are actually amazing achievements
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Lucre Snooker
@LucreSnooker
in a very very narrow circle of online people maybe there is too much uncritical praise of science (although i'm not sure i buy that either), but at the margin in the bigger world out there i'm not sure this is a real problem. i would distinguish it from "trust the science"
a pool of quicksilver
@QuicksilverPool
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Would you or someone else please elucidate for me what a "cargo cult" is and how it applies here? I feel like I see it a lot on Twitter wrt ideological/covert-magical thinking, but don't have a sense for what it means beyond that sorta vibe.
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jason
@jasonroy_miller
Thinking that imitating the outward appearance of something is the same as doing it for real. After WWII, inhabitants of some pacific islands built replicas of planes and other military gear, thinking that their presence would restart the shipping of cargo to the island.
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