1/ Has anyone studied the subset of people who think, "@BillNye is not a scientist!" is a valid rebuttal of the claims he makes about global warming?
They're an ironically ignorant bunch.
3/ Setting aside the value of #scicomm to the process of science -- and how science communicators *are* scientists -- the people who reject Nye rarely have a doctorates themselves. So, they simultaneously reject his power to understand and arbitrate while asserting their own.
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4/ But, it's weirder than that. Most of them conceptualize of science as pure deduction -- as though scientists were just human instances of Simon's General Problem Solver operating over a given knowledge base. ...It's almost like they're unfamiliar with science as an activity.
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5/ But, it seems like more than just practical unfamiliarity. Know who looks at science and chooses not to celebrate the creativity involved in (and joy of!) discovery? ...people who want science to empirically document and render the status quo as sacrosanct.
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6/ In modernity, if you perceive scientific discovery as adversarial to your beliefs, infiltration seems like a better strategy than outright opposition. If you want to maintain the status quo, constraining science to deduction over what is already established makes sense.
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