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Great read. I am reading a book right now called "Small Farm Future". Much of the book discusses the "Scientific" reasons why we must embrace small farming, to combat climate change, income inequality, etc...

It is interesting because I did not embrace Agrarianism for Scientific reasons, mostly social reasons; as in to build a small farm away from the urban landscape, a better environment for a family to grow, etc...

It is interesting how one uses Science as a basis to claim for any type of future they see fit...

Your article explains why it is a possible fallacy...

I do wonder what your thoughts are on the dueling Science narratives that shape our politics today?

-Jesse

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Mar 25, 2021Liked by Apex

Interesting. Not trying to be a pseud here but I feel this connects to Vico's Verum ipsum factum as a rebuttal to Descartes' Cogito ergo sum from Youtube channel Promethean Gnosis. I hope you can expound on why Descartes might or not be the cause of 'I F**king Love Science' meme and anything that I might be missing here.

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The "fucking love science" sentiment is not coming from the idealistic promise of a better world. If they actually "fucking loved science," they would be scientists. The sentiment is a cheap attempt to mine personal legitimacy for their views. The same reason the "critical theory" departments want a building on campus right alongside Physics and Engineering.

Same phenomenon no doubt existed in the middle ages with ideological zealots in the court, only they would have "fucking loved the Catholic Church" at the time.

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We need a new definition. If you have no choice but to follow it then it is science (for instance, gravity or daytime), and the activity of science is used to understand a repeatable event. If you do have a choice whether to follow it or do something different it is a thing called engineering, which is the molding of science to human desire.

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Absolutely fantastic articulation of the modern day cult of chemical determinism.

Please everyone look closely at the alleged 'Genome Mapping' methodology. It doesn't pass gr9 science.

TowerOfBabel.ca

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If you pour through the data and numbers yourself shit just gets weirder. Science is a story told to normies to justify government expenditure.

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