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Pluto as a planet was established science for a long time. Textbooks are probably the biggest examples of "settled science" that is out of date.
by spraak 8y ago
Pluto as a planet was established science for a long time. Textbooks are probably the biggest examples of "settled science" that is out of date.
- WalterBright 8y agoThe definition of a planet is not science, it's just an arbitrary rule.
- umvi 8y ago> it's just an arbitrary rule. Same with the definition of mental conditions. Yet people wield the DSM as science and use it to bludgeon people who are not politically in line with their worldview on mental health
- XorNot 8y agoWhat in the heck are you even referring to here? Seems like there's a lot of context missing from this comment.
- umvi 8y agoI purposefully kept the comment vague to avoid a dumpster fire. Basically, there are certain mental health conditions whose classification/categorization/etc. seem especially vulnerable to politicking, and if you take a dissenting stance on those particular conditions, you'll be attacked by opponents who believe the DSM grants them scientific high ground. You would know if it's happened to you.
- tlear 8y agoTry mentioning any of that and you summon a lynch mob. That area of science makes cargo culting in software development seem like math. Utter joke. That anyone takes it seriously or actually does anything based on it.. surgeons during Napoleonic wars had more clue as to what they were doing.
- esyir 8y agoI suspect he's referring to Gender Dysphoria, which was previously known as Gender Identity Disorder. This, if I recall correctly, happened in the transition to DSM 5.0.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Pluto as a planet was established science for a long time The discovery of more objects in the solar system led to defining additional categories of objects, most relevant the category of “dwarf planets”. That's evolving terminology not a change in the science.