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Being a scientist requires adherence to evidence based epistemology. That is inherently antithetical to right wing ideology.
by Apreche 1y ago
Being a scientist requires adherence to evidence based epistemology. That is inherently antithetical to right wing ideology.
- bell-cot 1y agoGo back 150 years, and you could make a similar argument about scientists needing to be straight white male Christians, from one of a rather small number of countries. Probably with some talk about "one must recognize the ultimate authority of God over mortal man, before one can hope to see past one's own mortal failings, and comprehend even the most modest details our Creator's world...".
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- Apreche 1y agoYes. Science was wrong for a long long time. Science being mostly correct is a relatively recent development, and one of the causes of this problem.
- IAmBroom 1y agoNo. The "scientific institutions" were mostly wrong. "Science" is a philosophical methodology, and is neither right nor wrong. However, using science tends to produce highly reliable outcomes (which are implicit in the very nature of the method, but that's a different issue). Scientists are often very wrong. Lamarck was a very wrong biological theorist. Schottky was very right about tunneling electrons, but a rabid racist.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoReality has a left-wing bias.
- aaron695 1y ago[dead]
- IAmBroom 1y ago... as currently espoused, certainly in the US, and in many other countries. It hasn't always been like this. The current self-definition of the right wing openly rejects the scientific method.
- apple4ever 1y agoThis is absolutely false.