There seems to be a lot confusion in the replies here regarding what Audra is saying — which is an entirely uncontroversial statement within the academic disciplines that study how science works now and in the past (e.g., the History, Anthropology, & Sociology of Science).https://twitter.com/ColdWarScience/status/1017211382176059392 …
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Replying to @wellerstein
I always liked John Casti's three-tiered definition of "science". Except for the first definition, all the other definitions are 'political' in some sense. People seem to be willfully or otherwise interpreting the statement as pushing some kind of relativist postmodernist agendapic.twitter.com/JHsDJrAS2R
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Replying to @curiouswavefn
I don't think you can neatly cut #1 out of the influence of the others. This is a longer discussion though — "what is a fact?" is a fascinating question to take seriously. They don't just hang in the air outside of time: they require human interaction to make and sustain.
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