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Re:Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism by tomjen3 on Monday January 01, 2018 @05:00PM (#16048283)
If that was so, there wouldn't be such a thing as the replication crisis.

Some scientific fields, math and physics, are pretty objective , but those that have been wide political interests or have fallen to post-modernism do not.

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Re:Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism by ThomPete on Monday January 01, 2018 @06:00PM (#16048536)
Saying they have fallen to postmodernism implies that that is somehow wrong. I think a more precise interpretation is that we live in a post-modern world where there is no objective truth and that this rubs a lot of people the wrong way because they don't want it to be a question of interpretation.

The good news is that we don't need objective truth to establish solid models.

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