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The models aren't political. That is true. But the models do not exist without humans generating them and interpreting them. The idea that science is somehow a
by teorema 5y ago
The models aren't political. That is true. But the models do not exist without humans generating them and interpreting them.
The idea that science is somehow apolitical is dangerous. It's no more true than the idea that journalism is apolitical.
You can try to take more of a metaperspective with both, but to assume politics doesn't enter into the endeavors is dishonest. In many ways the position that science is apolitical is itself political.
- goatlover 5y ago> The idea that science is somehow apolitical is dangerous. It's no more true than the idea that journalism is apolitical. The alternative is propaganda, which we already see enough of with journalism, and has happened in science when the government dictates the science. Science and the news should be held to an objective standard independent of any political considerations, even though humans are fallible and have biases, including political views. > In many ways the position that science is apolitical is itself political. This is like saying that atheism is religious. If you say everything is X, and I tell you that Ys are not Xs, then your rebuttal that my statement is X is abusing language and conflating X with Y. I could turn around, "everything is political", to be, "everything is scientific", and then claim that your statements to the contrary are scientific. But that would be collapsing meaningful distinctions, and potentially violating the law of identity, since it doesn't make sense for all political things to be scientific.