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> there was a movement by postmodernists to try to claim that science is just an ideology no better than religion or magic. This is such a paranoid fantasy.
by thanatropism 7y ago
> there was a movement by postmodernists to try to claim that science is just an ideology no better than religion or magic.
This is such a paranoid fantasy.
- vkou 7y agoIt's not a paranoid fantasy, when you look at the (very real) religious education wars that were being waged in the American South. The meme of "Science is no better then religion or magic" is why schools mandated equal time into teaching evolution, and particular flavours of evangelical creationism.
- QuesnayJr 7y agoIt's literally what Feyerabend argued in "Against Method".