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OftenBen · 2886 days ago · link · · parent · post: Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
What differentiates 'political skepticism' and just cynicism?
user-inactivated · 2886 days ago · link ·
You know how people say Batman is a fascist because he uses his vast fortune to beat up poor people and the mentally ill in defense of the status quo rather than doing anything about the conditions that oblige poor people to become criminals? Being able to wield the tools of science, or sometimes just the language, comes with power over what ideas get accepted, and so if you're going to use that power to undermine ideas choosing which ideas to undermine is a political act.