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Here's one example: some twenty years ago, "science" was a dirty word among liberals, Newton's Principia was a "rape manual", quarks were "constructed", and "sc
by pfedor 14y ago
Here's one example: some twenty years ago, "science" was a dirty word among liberals, Newton's Principia was a "rape manual", quarks were "constructed", and "scientism" was but another tool in our evil western civilization's arsenal for oppressing minorities and other cultures.
Nowadays, liberals are all about science. Anyone who'd dare to question the scientific method is corrupt or crazy or both. All it took was the climate change and the controversy around teaching evolution in schools.
- hindsightbias 14y agoI was around 20 years ago and I have no idea what you're talking about. Mainstream liberals were anti-science?
- richardjordan 14y agoThe Republicans owned NASA and space science in the 80s. Yes there was definitely an anti-science bent in mainstream liberalism for quite some time.
- hindsightbias 14y agoI worked for NASA then, you are making stuff up.
- pfedor 14y agoWas Richard Rorty not a mainstream liberal? Anyway, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars could be a good starting point if you care. The phenomenon was mainstream enough for say Steven Weinberg to have noticed and devoted some pages to it in his books.