Alex WellersteinVerified account

A charitable reading of this is as an implied disjunction & not a claim she's endorsing: [A] "If you think this is too radical, then here's a less radical alternative" and not [B] "This is too radical, here's a less radical alternative." [B] is dismissive, [A] isn't.

Historians seem to have a hard time with this piece as it ignores things like power, politics, contingency, etc. that are critical to how 'truth happens.' It seems too much to me like physicists' frictionless elephants.

I'll stick w. my def...science = "production of reliable knowledge about natural world" as each of those terms is open to inspection, has connections to the social world. But kudos to @aeonmag and @samhaselby for getting us all talking.