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THE_SCIENCE

                                             October 17, 2020

  "We follow the science."

  "The science is in--"

There are people who talk about
The Science as though they've
joined a new monotheistic religion.


There's a large faction of science-denialists
out there-- perhaps more than around a third of
the United States.

Some people have reacted against that and begun
to define themselves as followers of The
Science.

But Science is not a fixed doctrine, if
anything it's the anti-doctrine.  It
thrives by not being too dogmatic, by        Multiple attempts have been
being willing to review settled              made to firm up the nature of
conclusions, by being skeptical about        "the scientific method", but
everything including it's own grasp of       really the best anyone can do
facts.                                       is something like "check what
                                             can be checked".
Someone waving the flag of The Science
may be doing little more than engaging
in a rhetorical flourish.
                                                              FALSE_KARL
This is another form of politicizing science,                 LIMITED_HEAD
no less than the people who are reflexively
anti-science to show their tribal affiliation.

It may seem a weird thing to complain about:
That science is getting *too much* respect...



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