For Billy. :-) Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message: > From: "Stephen D. Williams" <[email protected]> > Date: March 5, 2018 at 10:21:48 PST > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FoRK] Science Wars: Is Science a Social Construct?, Women's Studies > as Virus > Reply-To: Friends of Rohit Khare <[email protected]> > > This ties together and coherently refutes a wide range of anti-science ideas > and people. Quite the hairy mess. > > There are plenty of good terms to learn from this like: science-shy students > (because of cultural association, etc.). Science wars. I suppose that's > always been a thing, in waves. Quite a thing that it's such a thing still, > apparently stronger than ever with people who are serious about theories. > Even if the theories aren't really serious. > > > The whole video is good, but this is at the paper proposing a strategy for a > "Women's Studies as Virus" approach: > > https://youtu.be/bxdBRKmPhe4?t=24m43s > > > I'm all for general inclusiveness and equality, but this is deep into > territory that is begging for good and persistent mocking. It's fine to not > be into science, but attacking science with pseudoscience in all these ways > is unacceptable. Not that there's any real worry about science, but there > are various negative impacts and the occasional (I hope) dumb decision, in > politics and elsewhere. It's going to take more than Niel to constantly > refute all of this to avoid a nasty infection. > > > It is amazing that people watch this kind of thing for reasons other than > comedy: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jLs-1GpwQM Dr Prof Alex Jones Explains > Advanced Physics > > > Stephen > > -- > Stephen D. Williams [email protected] [email protected] LinkedIn: > http://sdw.st/in > V:650-450-UNIX (8649) V:866.SDW.UNIX V:703.371.9362 F:703.995.0407 > AIM:sdw Skype:StephenDWilliams Yahoo:sdwlignet Resume: http://sdw.st/gres > Personal: http://sdw.st facebook.com/sdwlig twitter.com/scienteer > > _______________________________________________ > FoRK mailing list > http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
