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At the risk of being controversial if you accept the premises of this article you have to concede that most scientific progress comes from rich white men and th
by thewarrior 6y ago
At the risk of being controversial if you accept the premises of this article you have to concede that most scientific progress comes from rich white men and that there is no point in funding the rest. The way things are isn’t a good source of information.
- mattkrause 6y agoBut I don't accept the premise of the article, and that's why. Heck, you could have said the same thing about baseball or basketball pre-1950. Is it more likely that.... A) Rich, white men have some innate and preternatural ability to form and test hypotheses, or... B) Like literally every other human endeavor, apparent scientific ability also heavily depends on the means and opportunity to express it, public awareness and acceptance of the results, and a dash of luck?
- thewarrior 6y agoI don’t accept it either. It’s concerning to see such thoughts in the upper echelons of power.