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Published on Oct 16, 2016 by King Crocoduck I finally went there. Here I offer my two cents on what I perceive to be the source of many of our woes. I tried to refrain from being political, but I’m probably going to end up pissing off a bunch of people anyway. Before you ask, the 3rd Quantum video is on its way, I haven’t forgotten. Then after the 3rd there’ll be a 4th, a 5th, maybe even a 6th (hopefully not- I’m trying to keep it at 5 parts.) It’ll get here, just be patient- I’m in graduate school right now and it’s every bit as gruelling (and exciting!) as I’d expected. But I’ll make time for you all, don’t you worry. In fact, if you like, I can produce a weekly show where I go over some of these crazy peer-reviewed articles from the sophists and the Luddites, and it’ll be off the cuff so I won’t have to overextend myself, and I’ll still be able to give you all attention. Only if you want though, I’m just throwing the idea out there. Also, just wanted to clarify something that maybe wasn’t clear from the video- Lysenkoism wasn’t the source of the famines that I mentioned in the video, but did exacerbate them at a time when genuine scientific solutions were needed. I don’t want to give the impression that Lysenko’s ineptitude was the sole cause of these millions of death (though it absolutely did contribute significantly!) These references will be updated as the day goes on, but here are the preliminaries: Original video:
In this video, we’ll be reviewing, in some detail, what it is that social constructionists believe about science, and why you should be skeptical of their claims. Along the way, we’ll learn a bit about the philosophy of science and how it all works.
All networks were generated with MATLAB and were subsequently altered in MS Paint.
This was an extraordinarily difficult video to make, having been released a full two months after I’d intended to finish it. So please show some love and pass this around far and wide. It also wouldn’t hurt if you’d @neildegrassetyson about this video on Twitter ;)
[Note 1] This is why I disagree with the notion of incommensurability; it implies that old paradigms are incomprehensible in terms of the new ones, which I disagree with. Were that the case, however, one could reasonably argue (as some, like Feyerabend, did) that there is no such thing as scientific progress; we don’t really discover anything, but only find new ways to describe things.
Needless to say, I think that this is nonsense, and the superior predictive power of new paradigms, coupled to their ability to explain everything that the old paradigms could explain, is very strong evidence that scientific progress is NOT an illusion and (slightly more controversially) that scientific constructs do indeed represent something external to our minds.
In any event, here are a couple of links which demonstrate the derivations alluded to in the video:
[Note 2] There is no dispute over whether social values have some influence over which sciences are pursued, and to what extent they are funded. The dispute is over whether there exist values and/or interests that are unique to particular demographics, which then play a role in theory selection and/or construction. That scientific theories are constructed is not what is presently under dispute; the question is whether they are constructed from facts in order to maximize their predictive power, or whether they are SOCIALLY constructed from both facts AND socially-specific values for the purpose of legitimating the social perspectives associated with those values.
[Note 3] This is called a Motte and Bailey. It’s a specific type of bait-and-switch style of argumentation that is endemic to social constructionists. I advise you to familiarize yourself with it: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
ERRATA: 1) Footnote [51] is accidentally listed twice. The second one corresponds to footnote [52] in the bibliography. 2) Bruno Latour is mispronounced here as "Bruno Latoy." It is actually pronounced "Bruno Latuw." 3) (to be updated once another error is discovered)
[7] Hayles, Katherine. "Gender encoding in fluid mechanics: masculine channels and feminine flows". Differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies (1992). 4 (2), 16 - 44.
[8] Longino Helen E. "Can There Be A Feminist Science?". (1987). Hypatia 2 (3): pg 51
[9] Giordano, Sara. "Those who can’t, teach: critical science literacy as a queer science of failure". Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (2017). v. 3, n. 1.
[12] Longino Helen E. "Can There Be A Feminist Science?" (1987). Hypatia 2 (3), pg 58
[13] Dyson, Freeman. The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions. Oxford University Press, 1999. pg 144
[14] Richmond, Campbell. Illusions of Paradox: a Feminist Epistemology Naturalized. Politics, Law, and Society, 1998.
[15] Koertge, Noretta et. al. A House Built on Sand: Postmodernist Myths about Science. Oxford University Press, 2000.
[16] Gross, Paul; Levitt, Norman. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science. John Hopkins University Press, 1994.
[17] Gross, Paul; Levitt, Norman; Lewis, Martin. The Flight from Science and Reason. New York Academy of Sciences, 1996.
[18] Sokal, Alan; Bricmont, Jean. Fashionable Nonsense (Intellectual Impostures in the French version). New York: Picador, 1998.
[19] Almeder, Robert F et. al. Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology: An Examination of Gender in Science. Rutgers University Press, 2003.
[20] Weinberg, Steven. Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries. Harvard University Press, 2003.
[21] Macksey, Richard; Eugenio, Donato. The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man: The Structuralist Controversy. John Hopkins University Press, 1970. pg 267
[22] Latour, Bruno. A Relativistic Account of Einstein’s Relativity. Social Studies of Science (1988). 18:1
[23] Harding, Sandra G. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?. Ithaca: Cornell U, 1991. Print. pg 80
[24] Irigaray, Luce. "Sujet de la science, sujet sexué?". Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (1987). pg 110
[25] Hunter, Marcus A. “Racial physics or a theory of everything that happened.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40:8 (2017) pg 1173
[26] Hunter, Marcus A. “Racial physics or a theory of everything that happened.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40:8 (2017) pg 1182
[27] Rossner, Sue. Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering. Teachers College Press, 1995. Chapter 6
[29] Carey, Mark et. al. “Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research.” Progress in Human Geography 40:6 pg 770-793 (2016)
[47] Latour, Bruno. (2004) "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern". Critical Inquiry, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 2004, pp. 225-248
Sunday, Jan. 14th 2018 [, with an appearance by Laura Loomer]: Missile False Alarm Rattles Hawaii - An emergency alert broadcasted to Hawaii residents turned out to be a false alarm, but now the American people want answers. President Trump declared DACA ‘probably dead’ due to Democrat unwillingness to negotiate a deal. Meanwhile, the corporate media continues to melt down over Trump’s alleged 's—thole' comments. On today’s show, we’ll discuss the real inside baseball behind the Hawaii false alarm, and how it relates to the Deep State’s effort to destabilize America.
Faith healing proves that even peaceful religion can kill. Children dying in Christian Science and Followers of Christ is a regular occurrence. Reliance on placebo rather than on science based medicine is dangerous, and it’s easy to see why.
Whether it’s cancer treatment, mental health care, or a time of crisis, you’re better off trusting science, because prayer doesn’t work.
Peru quake: Magnitude 7.1 sea tremor topples buildings A huge earthquake off south-western Peru's Pacific coast has killed at least one person and injured at least 65, as buildings collapsed. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42682496
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