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Re:Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be da... by willis936 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:07PM (#28695643)
The history of psychology psuedoscience being used to validate racial bias is undeniable. I'm sure there are groups on the far left throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but by in large the left complain about psuedoscience being used as a tool of white supremacy.
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Re:Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be da... by Jensson on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @02:37PM (#28697998)
> The history of psychology psuedoscience being used to validate racial bias is undeniable.

At the time it was called just "science". Then new people entered the field, called the old things pseudoscience and started the cycle anew. I'd argue that not much improved, the social sciences was bad back then and are just as bad today and most of the things they preach today will be seen as totally wrong and ignorant and dangerous by the scientists of the future just like we view those of the past.

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Re:Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be da... by willis936 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:21PM (#28698569)
This makes it sound like the scientific method is somehow soft or relative. It isn't. Short circuiting the scientific method was pseudoscience then, it's pseudoscience now.
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