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Are you claiming here that every productive institution in society is capitalist? Also for what it's worth, I don't see attacks on science in any things you li
by joshuamorton 6y ago
Are you claiming here that every productive institution in society is capitalist?
Also for what it's worth, I don't see attacks on science in any things you link. I see, perhaps, a call for more empiricism in certain fields, and a call for recognition of our society and it's flaws, and how those flaws may extend into systems embedded within our society, such as the scientific community and our educational system.
I mean, it's clear you agree with some of these criticisms: in the same post you staunchly defend science as, presumably a source of everything productive, but criticize "academia". Yet how do you propose to differentiate between the two? You're both criticizing different parts of the social system scientific discourse is embedded in. What makes the other criticism inherently invalid?
> The end of this line of thinking is to destroy mathematical education and leave children ignorant
I want to call out specifically that there is absolutely nothing you've quoted that supports this claim.
- throwawayback 6y agoI hold a graduate degree. I have a certain affection for academia. It's with great sadness that I watch a once-great institution shamble down the path to perdition. Hopefully we find a way to renew it, or else to do basic science outside of it