"I believe in science" is the cheapest intellectual dross on the market. Do you? Science is an ongoing institutional bloodbath; every "breakthrough" is a persistent or even cantankerous David finally scoring one on Goliath, often only posthumously. It's metal AF.
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Agreed but isn't this a bit like saying that accounting is metal if we consider the accountants that fight the corporate ladder, create new companies, software and idk, reform taxes? Spotlighting the tail end of the bell curve seems like a PR move.
Accounting is a much more intrinsically authority-mediated field; you follow standards to be a good accountant not because they're necessarily better, but because your output is "graded" by other humans. Only rarely do you get to do interesting stuff w/ novel inputs, e.g. crypto.
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Science is very often more authority-mediated than most people think, but because its higher aims are not supposed to be this generates significant conflict. (Thus, my tweet.)
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You're talking about someone pointing to the higher aims despite the authority between? I will think about that. Tangential point that I can't ignore is that nobody ever talks about what the aims of science actually are. Just seems to be "more research, more better".
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