Re:Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?
by strogonoff on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @02:34AM
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> society-scale version of googling for statements that you agree with instead of questions that they're supposed to answer
Unfortunately, in practice science often turns out to be almost as much of a vehicle for confirming answers one already has in mind, rather than open-ended investigation.
Re:Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?
by clusterfish on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:44PM
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Nothing is ever perfect. That's not a reason to deliberately make it worse than it normally is.
But you can't base any argument on that when research into alternative (or complementary), genetics-based explanations is being stiffled. Or well you can, but that's just society-scale version of googling for statements that you agree with instead of questions that they're supposed to answer.
When you stiffle research directions for political reasons, you're doing politics, not science, and the arguments based on lack of stiffled research don't hold any more water than arguments based on no research.