The widespread adoption of indoor plumbing was a consequence of economic changes happening through Europe at the time and happened *alongside* germ theory etc but not really *because* of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TWLadyGrey and
I mean this is exactly what I think Noah is talking about, this impulse to give credit to expertise and say if something improved in society it's because a bunch of smart people got together and planned it, which is much less common than people think
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yes! we think, "scientists figured out germ theory so people invented indoor plumbing," when in fact it's more like, "people long wished for better indoor plumbing because shit smells, and managed to get it at about the same time as germ theory developed"
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This is a weirdly anti science take from people on the left. “Poop smells” is less compelling a case for change than “we’re all gonna die of germs if we don’t get sanitation.”
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Replying to @TWLadyGrey @nberlat and
How is this anti-science? It’s a description of how things happened and tend to happen.
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Replying to @TheWeaseKing @nberlat and
Because it’s painting one of the marvels of modern discovery as a random happenstance.
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Civil engineers did not accidentally figure out how to plan city sewage systems.
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Omg. Did a physicist tell yeti to insulate its cups or do we just know about insulation because basic physics has permeated most people’s consciousness?
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Generally just knowing how insulation works from unconscious personal experience (like the SNL sketch, "Fucking blankets, how do they work?!") is usually brought up as the ultimate example of what ISN'T science
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TWLadyGrey and
If a child knowing that it's warmer under the blankets than without the blankets is "science" then literally everything humans do is science "And when everything is science... nothing will be" - Syndrome
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