With respect to @stevennovella, we should take issue with the idea that "science transcends culture." Which scientific questions we ask, what gets funded, to what end, for whose benefit, are inextricably linked to culture. Science doesn't live in silos.https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/indigenous-ways-of-knowing/ …
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Replying to @ksenapathy @stevennovella
A better way of saying it might be that the scientific method, for the most part, can transcend culture.
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Replying to @gorskon @stevennovella
Definitely. I also take issue w/ the words we use to describe science and not-science, esp "eastern" vs. "western." As if people in the east are incapable of "naturally" coming up with/using the scientific method. And again, this is where culture does come into play (colonialism)
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Replying to @ksenapathy @stevennovella
Oh, I've written more times than I can remember that the whole "Eastern"/"Western" dichotomy is racist as hell. It feeds into the whole caricature of the "West" (i.e., Europe) being more "rational" and the "East" (Asia) being more mystical and mysterious.
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Replying to @gorskon @stevennovella
Ooh nice, I didn't know you'd addressed it. I'll dig up and read later.
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I haven't really written a post explicitly about it, but I have mentioned it on multiple occasions, usually as part of a post about traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, or the like.
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