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Wait, is science all political these days? What makes you say that in this case?
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is science all political these days?
pretty much; it's politics all the way down, until you reach logic; then there is some hope that the oppressed minority of mathematicians who believe that art is dead and mathematics survived by pretending successfully to be a science will survive longer than the death of their beautiful art.
What makes you say that in this case?
"a little learning" [lifetime of listening to complaints about academia, and about half a decade of accumulating some of my own]
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a little learning
edit: @adlai
[lifetime of listening to complaints about academia, and about half a decade of accumulating some of my own]
That’s super vague and not very academic. 🤠 I was asking about something specific!
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I’ll answer after you! 🤠
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it's worse than politics. any honest correspondent writes about the interesting effects, and lets editorialisation in magazines for general audiences add politics until they lose readership; however, science has been politicised for longer than I've been alive...