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0 pointsTeMPOraL9y ago0 comments

> Science is what got this man elected (twitter, television), now it needs to fight for the very basic principles.

The word "science" seems to mean almost everything nowadays.

Twitter and television are not science. They are social constructs built around the works of engineering, which itself was based on some established scientific knowledge.

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arekkas9y ago

>Twitter and television are not science. They are social constructs built around the works of engineering, which itself was based on some established scientific knowledge.

I admit it's a long causality chain, but without the scientific methods, those things would not exist. Thus, those methods are what we need to preserve in order to advance, and this is very openly threatened by the current administration.

TeMPOraLOP9y ago

I agree that scientific method needs to be preserved, but honestly, I don't think the current US administration even enters top 10 of dangers to science itself. Science as both the methods and the established culture around it has been in serious trouble for years now, and a lot of that has to do with mass media reporting and with the way incentives for scientists are structured.

As for Trump's administration creating creating a danger for the climate-change mitigation efforts, that's another topic.

hueving9y ago

He targeted his ads using social media in a very scientific matter (the article on the front page yesterday??). Ads selected on beliefs associated with responses to social media behavior.

But you're right that using Twitter by itself is not science.

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