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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Replying to @RichardDawkins
I am profoundly disappointed to see a scientist whom I once admired spouting such an ignorant take. It's not as though the concept of science as a social construct is new or even particularly controversial, nor does that concept invalidate the findings of science.

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Replying to @gorskon @RichardDawkins
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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Replying to @Nuno_H_Franco @RichardDawkins
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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Disagree. I think you're reading his intentions wrong. "Science's truth"
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Context matters. I'm simply interpreting in the context of his history over the last few years.
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You mean combating bigotry?
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Sure, "Dear Muslima"...

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