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1. Much of US policy toward science is backlash to Covid vaccinations. Being anti-Science is a way of preventing Science from inflicting itself on the populace
by runako 5mo ago
1. Much of US policy toward science is backlash to Covid vaccinations. Being anti-Science is a way of preventing Science from inflicting itself on the populace again in the future.
2. Science trends toward meritocracy, which is bad if your goal is to promote a particular social hierarchy.
- Hikikomori 5mo agoIt's been there so much longer, even Carl Sagan talked about it, and its inherently tied to religion.
- groundzeros2015 5mo agoWe just did a 30 year run of “religious people are dumb and holding bus back” and it didn’t start a science boom and just made people more unhappy and disaffected. And 2020 further revealed that science is not immune from politics or its own religious ideals.
- Hikikomori 5mo agoWhen did this ever happen?
- groundzeros2015 5mo agoAfter your formative years when you were done adopting new ideas.
- Hikikomori 5mo agoAbout as coherent as you would except.
- vladms 5mo agoDo you imply that last 30 years lacked significant science progress? Even if I ignore the tech ones (simpler to associate with the US), there were quite some impressive progress I heard of in other fields (in which US was significantly involved).
- groundzeros2015 5mo agoNo, but most certainly less than 1940-1970 which was a much more religious time.