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> Hard sciences like physics are on much firmer ground, and conflating the two is clownish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair https://en.wikipedia.
by danharaj 9y ago
> Hard sciences like physics are on much firmer ground, and conflating the two is clownish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair
> It's a nice story you've got there, but the reason there is a replication crisis in the softer sciences is not due to the evil capitalists of the marxist imagination.
You understand literally nothing about Marxism. For example, "capitalist" isn't a moral designation, it is a description of an economic agent's role in an economic relationship. Capital owners have access to resources and they give permission to laborers to use those resources. That's it.
> cultural marxist
You can't be serious.
> See the ongoing fight against the idea of a high genetic basis for adult IQ.
This plays out more in the public sphere than in scientific communities. It's also the case that a few popular intellectuals try to sell psychometric science as saying more than it actually does about how social policies should be designed. This, again, happens moreso outside of scientific circles.