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I also see stuff on the left calling objectivity a tool of "white supremacy." So yeah, very dangerous. The problem with science is that it shows the truth that both sides wish wasn't there.

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Are you aware of how often science and medicine has been used specifically to repress non-white populations? I'm not saying that's an inherent trait of science, but it can easily be employed in that way if people aren't actually aware of the biases people hold implicitly.

The history of psychology psuedoscience being used to validate racial bias is undeniable. I'm sure there are groups on the far left throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but by in large the left complain about psuedoscience being used as a tool of white supremacy.

> The history of psychology psuedoscience being used to validate racial bias is undeniable.

At the time it was called just "science". Then new people entered the field, called the old things pseudoscience and started the cycle anew. I'd argue that not much improved, the social sciences was bad back then and are just as bad today and most of the things they preach today will be seen as totally wrong and ignorant and dangerous by the scientists of the future just like we view those of the past.

This makes it sound like the scientific method is somehow soft or relative. It isn't. Short circuiting the scientific method was pseudoscience then, it's pseudoscience now.

And in the middle you have the people who say they "believe the science"and are religiously unwilling to accept anything that isn't orthodoxy. Less dangerous in most cases, but kind of ironic.

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