Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.
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I agree this is a bad take, especially considering how great of a science communicator Dawkins usually is. He probably meant 'scientific facts', which even if we were to scrap all books today, we would eventually find again to be true. But Science is more than a body of knowledge
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No, he meant science. Anti-woke ideology and criticisms of some science as being biased due to racism, misogyny, etc. have rotted his brain. I suspect he's posting this in response to transgender science.
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Science can only became a social construct through observation. Without observation, science remains science.
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Schrödinger's cat was both male and female... until someone saw it's GINORMOUSLY HUGE CAT PENIS.
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The ignorance isn't present in the tweet, so you're doing some mind reading here. I'm sure your more in tune with whatever the subtext was than I, but the "once admired" bit is exactly the kind of asymmetrical warfare scientists are supposed to loathe.
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I think it’s crazy that someone with a PHD can’t understand that he’s not talking about concepts here...
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And the fact that he writes "... Whom I ones admired", tells me he has a certain bias on willingly misinterpret this "anti-woke" monster...
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I fully agree, David. Science didn’t exist before scientists existed. Gravity did, but the science that observed and described gravity and the mathematical models for calculating gravity did not.
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The earth has been near-spherically shaped long before the science was available to describe the earth as near-spherically shaped. And if we are not careful that science may not exist in 100 years, while the earth will remain near spherical for quite some time.
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