tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post3045961325045052855..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: Science in Danger!TheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-44439910599816981362017-10-31T15:53:31.746-04:002017-10-31T15:53:31.746-04:00Thank you for mansplaining that to me.Thank you for mansplaining that to me.TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-38872133423025854542017-10-31T15:33:19.965-04:002017-10-31T15:33:19.965-04:00But I'm beginning to suspect time has finally ...But I'm beginning to suspect time has finally caught up with Dr. Boli to the left.thefederalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17514099991587503764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-40814623411507624102017-10-31T15:26:56.671-04:002017-10-31T15:26:56.671-04:00"TOF also does not know why the same referenc..."TOF also does not know why the same reference text was mentioned three times in the same definition, but without page references."<br /><br />Because modern modes of referencing sources privileges the masculinist obsession with claiming credit for minuscule achievement.thefederalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17514099991587503764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-1948162901348202322017-10-27T18:17:37.737-04:002017-10-27T18:17:37.737-04:00For lack of a better place, I’m posting this tweet...For lack of a better place, I’m posting this tweet that made me think of you for some reason: https://twitter.com/catholiccoolkid/status/924007236309016577Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13238548635539620285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-6388078590943809652017-10-26T00:21:08.428-04:002017-10-26T00:21:08.428-04:00"This study was framed through the lens of po..."This study was framed through the lens of poststructuralist feminist thought to providea lens through which I explored how power is gendered (Hesse-Biber, 2014)." <br /><br />A study was framed through a lens.... to provide a lens. Was this even reviewed for editing before it was published.<br /> <br /><br />"Poststructuralism “rejects objectivity and the notions of an absolute truth and single reality,” and “knowledge is complicated, contradictory, and contingent to a certain social context and historical context”(Hesse-Biber, 2014, p. 44)." <br /><br />So... should I take it that the good author isn't really intending to tell me the truth? Well that's a waste. She is trying to break down a science whose very existence philosophically depends on the notions of objectivity and absolute truth. <br /><br />And y'alls, that was just the first two sentences of the "conceptual framework" for article number 2.<br /><br /><br />As a STEM female, this is just insulting to me.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Lagrange Squaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220923491528658731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-65028312216044804132017-10-25T19:01:35.767-04:002017-10-25T19:01:35.767-04:00Utterly unrelated-- TOM! You're alive! Yay!Utterly unrelated-- TOM! You're alive! Yay! Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-32084441576718261402017-10-25T12:37:44.660-04:002017-10-25T12:37:44.660-04:00What struck me is how innocently he calls for a ‘K...What struck me is how innocently he calls for a ‘Kolmogorov option’ where a powerful patron would create a sort of island in society where scientists could work without ideological interference.<br /><br />You know, something pretty much exactly like the mediaeval universities, which were sponsored by… wait for it… the Catholic Church.<br /><br />Pity they didn’t have something like that, eh?Tom Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16067031472666752839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-36317925487087939992017-10-24T23:33:52.615-04:002017-10-24T23:33:52.615-04:00Anyone who objects to a reigning orthodoxy really ...<i>Anyone</i> who objects to a reigning orthodoxy really just wants to substitute their own; only some of them have the self-awareness to know it (or the honesty to admit it).Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-19914473202087193592017-10-24T14:42:04.023-04:002017-10-24T14:42:04.023-04:00It's especially amusing because it only makes ...It's especially amusing because it only makes sense if one actually thinks it is bad for a society to have a reigning orthodoxy, not what the orthodoxy is. The Soviet example and the thunder/lightning example can both be tested against objective reality and found to be deficient on strictly empirical grounds. The Catholic example cannot be similarly dismissed.thefederalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17514099991587503764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-25660080858028145362017-10-24T10:03:30.172-04:002017-10-24T10:03:30.172-04:00It is a truly amusing discussion, with the usual c...It is a truly amusing discussion, with the usual cherry-picking. Bruno is cited, but Nicholas of Cusa never mentioned. Roger Bacon is cited, but not his friends and mentor, Grosseteste and Peter de Maricourt. It is easy over the course of 400 years to find a few people who were treated badly (or you can construe as having been treated badly) and you can even pick the designated bugbear. But then you have to explain why the said bugbear did not similarly mistreat the other folks. Why Galileo and not Kepler? Why Bruno and not Nicholas of Cusa? Why R. Bacon and not Grosseteste or Pilgrim Pete? TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-49865123045896276672017-10-24T08:28:45.283-04:002017-10-24T08:28:45.283-04:00Afros in Sweden? Isn't that cultural appropria...Afros in Sweden? Isn't that cultural appropriation?thefederalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17514099991587503764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-65778472728527499072017-10-24T00:22:59.539-04:002017-10-24T00:22:59.539-04:00A comment and suggestion for a future post:
Read ...A comment and suggestion for a future post:<br /><br />Read Scott Alexander's post at http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/<br />In it, replace "lightning" by "God", and "thunder" by "Nature".<br />The same blog post then comes a lesson that we can entirely believe in! <br />Try it!!Ian Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13225626428359340605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-84630738798596130972017-10-23T22:31:07.602-04:002017-10-23T22:31:07.602-04:00As I think I've said before, "stance"...As I think I've said before, "stance" is real linguistic jargon, though it's not much used by real linguists. (Linguistics is arguably the most empirical of the social sciences, except maybe archaeology.)<br /><br />And (so far as I can puzzle out) "interdiscursivity" doesn't actually mean that. It means terms and concepts from one discipline being used in another, as when archaeologists talk about the "evolution" of the European sword, or when economic analysis is applied to things like biological mating systems.Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.com