Science is exposing errors on both sides of the spectrum. Science is weakening Christianity/Islam, free will, and meritocracy (on the right) and science is also weakening blank slate equality (on the left). Now both extremes are encouraging skepticism of science itself.
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"The people will become so curious and so arrogant that they will never find humility enough to submit to a civil rule." - from Noam Chomsky quoting Clement Walker.
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read this for a wonderful example of how truth depends almost entirely on preconceived bias: https://williamblum.org/aer/read/156
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They might well prove to be wrong about that, but it was a desperate gamble by a population desperate for integrity among the elites.
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The essential difference between her and Trump supporters is that elites like her seem to trust other elites, and do not wonder about how their funding corrupts their judgment. Many voted for Trump because they sensed he was too rich to be corrupted by the normal interests.
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Or that sugar is not a cause of diabetes? That mercury laced vaccines do not cause Autism and other severe problems? If the experts can be so wrong about these things, why not about GMOs and Global Warming? I think Goldstein utterly fails to reckon with these objections.
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The problem is not that we distrust science. The problem is that we distrust scientists, who have been proven over and over again to have their judgment corrupted by their funding sources. How else do we explain eminent scientists condoning cigarette smoking?
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As a right winger, I agree with this. Our side can and will do better. One way or the other, we will be the side of reason, humanity, order, and facts. Have you seen what the left is doing in academia? We've gone past the point of no return with them.
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Calling the article fascinating is a bit of sophistry itself. But it's not bad. Sophistry catalyzed by social media isn't a particularly novel explanation. But I do agree post modernism is so abstruse that its reach can't be as far as some fear.
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"Truth isn't the problem - we are." Can't read further unless you subscribe. Freudian irony here :)
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Thing of is, the essay, which I'd like to see, is hidden behind a WSJ firewall. It would be enlightened of you to pierce the firewall and provide text.
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Here's a truth - the Russian people should be offered membership in the EU. No? Now why would you say that...??
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Truth is, I’m not going to pay to read articles when I can find coverage on the topic for free. That makes me an asshole for not supporting the author, yet an alright individual for caring about the topic. So does not paying leave me vulnerable to skews on the issues?
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Perhaps all this postmodernist thought is due to the increased capacity for abstract thinking. 150 years ago, we called things by their name. Now we are aware of the many possible explanations for one same single phenomenon. James Flynn.
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But wrong about the influence of postmodernism...
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Omg... Incognito window no longer gets me passed that pesky paywall
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"Tongues were given to men as claws to bears or teeth to tigers - merely for the purposes of offense and defence" -dead sage
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The truth is that you’re an unwitting promotor of anthropocentric materialism, Steven.
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Do the light pulses in the video move faster for the moving observer than for the stationary? If they do, Einstein's theory and physics as a whole collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg7O4rtlwEE … Einsteinians see that the pulses move faster for the moving observer but believe that they don't:pic.twitter.com/1JNv6ZkWm3
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