Which science majors have the fewest conservatives?

silence_kit
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:21:50 +0000

lol pkmntrainerharry, you are unable to defend the One True Ideology with reason, so now you resort to grandstanding. you are still saying a lot things that we aren’t arguing for, and actually have rebutted for you, but it is easier for you to operate this way.

i really like what some random dude on the internet said about the views you hold:



I assure you, Leviathan, that I have no issue with the scientific method or scientists who know what they’re doing. I do, however, have issues with simpletons who think “science” is the be-all and end-all of all intelligent inquiry and pretend that the scientific method has anything at all to say about metaphysics. This guy unleashed a ton of mumbo-jumbo using sciency words to try and make his claim sound authoritative; I don’t know why you’re upset at me reacting to him.

And for everybody else, this is exactly what I mean about people not being sophisticated enough to understand that epistemology is more fundamental than the scientific method. There’s no reason why scientists have to be positivists at all.

I still can’t get over the fact that somebody is seriously arguing that there’s no such thing as intelligent inquiry into ethics, language, narratives, etc., and/or that the scientific method could even remotely be applicable to those topics. If there was a supreme arrogance in centuries past that allowed clueless priests to think they could make scientific pronouncements with authority, today there is a supreme arrogance among clueless scientists that allows them to think they can make philosophical pronouncements with authority. I just can’t get over this. This is “education”?