Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science

Re:Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defens... by buboard on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:03AM (#18308183)

Economies have been led technocracies since at least the 80s. There are numerous ways the academia failed to predict the financial crisis, and on the contrary facilitated it: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/22a9/5fc8524947c1b7f985bd75...

The 'greed and bad governance' claim is bogus: one the one hand, it was was academically-approved 'greed', and 'bad goverment' had little to with the collapse of private institutions that the US government had to save.

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Re:Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defens... by resonanttoe on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:19AM (#18308256)

You're making claims that are entirely unsupported by anything you've provided or said. The paper linked makes the claim towards the failure of academic economics failing to predict the Financial crisis of 2008, not science.

(This also completely ignores that it seems to be a book passage rather than a review and well cited article in a Journal).

You've imposed your own narrative on the article written about Latour here and bought up wild claims about 2008 with no relevance to the discussion at hand.

I actually don't know what your point is other than to rally against the NYT and it sniffs of personal bias the whole way down.

I doubt you've read the article.

And I'll just leave this selected quote here from the article you did link.

"* This opinion paper is the outcome of one week of intense discussions within the working group on ‘Modeling of Financial Markets’ at the 98 th Dahlem Workshop, 2008. "

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