It certainly seems to me that postmodernism and science are mutually exclusive philosophies. Science says that there is a truth, and that through experimentation and building models you can find that truth. By contrast, postmodernism often rejects the concept of objective truth altogether.
People say that the right wing is opposed to science, and I just don’t see it. What I do see is that the right wing is opposed to the postmodern corruption of science.
We got to see this in 2020, where “the science” became synonymous with something that in no way represented science, it represented something that claims that it could not be proven wrong because it was infallible, something that was based around perfect individuals preaching truth rather than a humble process that tries to find what’s true, and understanding that you might have to throw out ideas that you really liked because they just turned out to be wrong.
Once you break science, once you take away the humility that’s built into the scientific process, you no longer have the tool that built the world we live in. What you have instead is a new religion that only expresses things that are popular in the moment.
I routinely use science in my job, the first lesson is that it can’t make something that isn’t true real. As a first principle you have to accept that you might be wrong about something, maybe something that you really thought was true or really wanted to be true. But if the data doesn’t support the hypothesis, it’s time to move on.
This is entirely at odds with modern politics, where people just get deeply entrenched into certain viewpoints and obviously can’t move because this is the hill they chose to die on. There is Media written, there are organizations formed, there’s money donated, and it doesn’t matter that something was proven to be wrong, you can’t let that go, because there’s too much sunken costs.
It certainly seems to me that postmodernism and science are mutually exclusive philosophies. Science says that there is a truth, and that through experimentation and building models you can find that truth. By contrast, postmodernism often rejects the concept of objective truth altogether.
People say that the right wing is opposed to science, and I just don’t see it. What I do see is that the right wing is opposed to the postmodern corruption of science.
We got to see this in 2020, where “the science” became synonymous with something that in no way represented science, it represented something that claims that it could not be proven wrong because it was infallible, something that was based around perfect individuals preaching truth rather than a humble process that tries to find what’s true, and understanding that you might have to throw out ideas that you really liked because they just turned out to be wrong.
Once you break science, once you take away the humility that’s built into the scientific process, you no longer have the tool that built the world we live in. What you have instead is a new religion that only expresses things that are popular in the moment.
I routinely use science in my job, the first lesson is that it can’t make something that isn’t true real. As a first principle you have to accept that you might be wrong about something, maybe something that you really thought was true or really wanted to be true. But if the data doesn’t support the hypothesis, it’s time to move on.
This is entirely at odds with modern politics, where people just get deeply entrenched into certain viewpoints and obviously can’t move because this is the hill they chose to die on. There is Media written, there are organizations formed, there’s money donated, and it doesn’t matter that something was proven to be wrong, you can’t let that go, because there’s too much sunken costs.