Posted on 09/24/2017 8:43:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
It has always bothered me that while science cannot explain things like hate and love, good and bad, and many of the most important things in human life, it is used as authority for meddling in human affairs. The impulse to explain everything with science has generated a group of pseudoscientists that provide a great tool to power hawkers for their agendas.
When I first heard the term social science, for example, I wanted to laugh but couldnt. We all know has it been forgotten? that there is no science for that which science cannot define, the case with almost everything important associated with being human. That politics and fake science have been partners for a long time is no secret. That their illicit relationship is hardly recognized is inexcusable. Enthralled by science, as the public for good reason tends to be, a majority are prone to accept any nonsense in the name of science.
The great successes achieved by scientists have unfortunately given science a prestige and an authority beyond its unquestionable utility. That so many lean on science for their take on just about everything should bother us all since it promotes a confidence in a way of thinking and a way of acting that continually shuts more doors than it opens a fact recognized by science professionals who fully appreciate their craft and its connection to reality and accept its limitations.
It is important to see that the reduction of human reality to bits of data stuffed in mathematical packets aping scientific practice forms a line to lunacy.
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Social Science = Social Justice
100% emotional “thinking”
The great successes achieved by scientists have unfortunately given science a prestige and an authority
As I read it, the author is referring to the misuse of science’s prestige and authority by treating “social sciences” as if they were real science.
I agree that anything with ‘social’ in it isn’t science.
"[S]ociologists and songwriters among them − still think of the real world as being material.
"It is a false notion. How, to sharpen the point, does matter arrange itself into hummingbirds, rainbows, smiles, recipes for soup, instructions for safety in an emergency . . . and so on, and so forth? Given the (im)possiblity, such a world would be a huge, dead heap."
Abuse? I’d call it rape.
Science proves all lib talking points, they say,
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