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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Replying to @gorskon @RichardDawkins
Too much of a stretch for me to make this interpretation, based on just the tweet. It *might* be the case that it refers to something else, but judging solely on what's on the tweet, I'm fine with it at face value (taking 'science' as meaning 'knowledge'). In any case:pic.twitter.com/3cnLk7v7OV
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Replying to @Nuno_H_Franco @RichardDawkins
Anyone who's so loose with language conflating "science" with "knowledge," as Dawkins did (if you are correct), needs an education in the philosophy of science.
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Or uses the term "scientific truth" unironically.
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