Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Some of the loudest Proponents of Science — an identity moreso than a descriptor — are scientifically illiterate. If you say stuff like "there's a consensus in the field" or "this has been established for 50 years," and can't go any deeper than that, you're just chanting doctrine

First rule of fight club is know what you don't know. Don't hang your hat on statements about the state if the system that produces science in order to imply knowledge you do not have about its contents. Go learn, think. The men in white coats don't own the nature of the universe

The subtext is often something like "I'm smart enough to leave the science to the professionals" — this is *not* pro-science, it's pro-institution. At the population level, I suspect it hinders progress as or more effectively than many flavors of religious fervor

In a pro-science society, we'd all be able to participate in the human project — a landscaper notes a yet-undescribed interaction between warring ant colonies, a housekeeper notices a new trend in urban mold. We'd not pride ourselves on accepting our own cognitive impoverishment.