Nah. Science was not in such crises.

It is literally people who want to deny uncomfortable realities that are attacking and destroying it now. The ideological anti reality issue is in the side of Trump voters.

Also, funny enough, people who were correctly predicting what conservatives will do were called out of touch by people like you. Quite a few of them were actually social scientists and yes they have seen it.

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nritchie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Right, science, while not perfect (being a human endeavor), is our best mechanism for getting closer to the truth. Sure, fraud happens (occasionally). Not all "results" are a step forward. But the system is inherently self correcting. The problem is the politicization of science funding when scientific results don't fit into a dogma driven view of the world.

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warumdarum 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Then why now did they get the momentum? Why not the last 75 years? What has changed.. where is the falsifyability and prediction power in that story? There has to be better social science out there beyond "The inevitable victorymarch to a startrek future progressed nicely when suddenly facism returned".. that just sounds like someone who lost the plot completely and is in open denial about a species maybe to disabled to wield any future advances safely, without a period of realistic reflection first.

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nandomrumber 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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uniqueuid 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The causal loop you mentioned makes social science hard, but I’d argue that falsification and hypothesis-driven research can still work. Otherwise all the behavioral targeting Meta and Google and co are doing would not work.

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nandomrumber 3 hours ago | parent [-]

If private enterprise want to fund marketing research, fine.

It’s the social science academics living off the public purse I take issue with.

	▲	ModernMech 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So what? I pay taxes too, and I want social scientists to be paid using tax dollars for the work they do, which I find valuable. There's plenty I take issue with my taxes being paid for but I just put up with it because we live in a society where my priorities aren't the only ones. Why can't you take that approach with social scientists?

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nritchie 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have no idea what you are babbling about. Sure, the evolution of the climate is recorded in the geological record. Climate scientists largely understand why these geological timescale events happened. What we are now undergoing is orders-of-magnitude faster than any geologically recorded event. Except for catastrophic events like meteorite impacts and mega-vulcanism there has never been such a rapid change. And climate scientists understand why. Look in the mirror. It is us.

	▲	nandomrumber 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe you’re right. Maybe we should panic. Maybe we should instil panic and fear in the junior school kids. Yeah, that’ll help! Maybe we should be teaching the kids that white people are evil and rich white people just want to destroy the environment.