Agreed. When I see such arguments I immediately become skeptical because I start seeing a political argument being made, or at least, an argument driven by pol

Agreed. When I see such arguments I immediately become skeptical because I start seeing a political argument being made, or at least, an argument driven by political leanings. When I say political, I do not mean party political, but generally being on the left side of the spectrum. I've known enough philosophers who do their level best to bring science down a peg, seeing it as power struggle between the different ways of "knowing" Think postmodernism and the quest to relativise everything.