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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by SavantIdiot on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:19PM (#28855536)
Not being snarky, but it started with Aristarchus (his parallax work) and Ptolemy (the other one), so I'm pretty sure it would have continued in countries that weren't under Catholic oppression of science. Persia was pretty much the engine of science while Europe languished.

To say this would not have progressed is to ignore the important work of non-European scientists.

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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by marginalia_nu on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:35PM (#28855714)
Science actually progressed in Europe as well during the supposed dark ages. The whole notion that science just laid dormant between the fall of Rome and the renaissance is enlightenment-era propaganda that unfortunately has become part of the western cultural narrative.

Ironically the notion of a Muslim golden age of free thought and science followed by a long dark age of no progress and oppression is also largely imagined.

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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by SavantIdiot on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:50PM (#28858128)
Correct. Which is why I said "languished", in comparison to what immediately followed with the Age of Enlightment, and what came before it, in Greece and the early Roman empire.

It also is a bit of a misnomer to blame it all on religion, it was mostly just an assload of war.

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