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> It must have been a monumental effort by everyone in society to agree on norms that protect us from a completely unscientific attitude It was never an agreem
by pjc50 1y ago
> It must have been a monumental effort by everyone in society to agree on norms that protect us from a completely unscientific attitude
It was never an agreement. It was more of a victory. One kind of science produced the nitrogen that fed the world; another produced the victory of the free societies in WW2; another produced the wonder drugs - the antibiotics etc - that allowed far more of the population to survive.
It will survive when the more truth-seeking societies win over those that survive on lies.
- IAmBroom 1y ago> another produced the victory of the free societies in WW2; Much of the credit for the victory goes to Stalin's USSR. Perhaps "not Nazi nor Japanese" would be more accurate. > It will survive when the more truth-seeking societies win over those that survive on lies. Always the path of progress, especially in science it seems. Darwinism takes over when the remaining Creationist biology teachers finally die, etc. It's possible that the 20th Century moved beyond this - Relativity and DNA caught on within a single generation.