Saying Pluto is a planet or not has nothing to do with science. Was there a blind experiment somewhere? I'm not saying we can't have that discussion, but I AM saying it's outside the realm of science. This is an issue of defining words, not cause-and-effect
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reclassifying it as "eccentric dwarf planetoid" or whatever isn't just a shift in language but a shift in the ability to think about what kinds of things are in space. the fact that people jabber about it is mostly due to shitty media coverage and childhood nostalgia.
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I actually don't have an issue with the jabbering. Just the fact that they use 'science' to lend authority to claims that have nothing to do with science. It's never just, "We classify things like this because it's more useful to us"
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scientism is a bad look
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