Which Ideology Poses a Greater Threat to Science?

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The discussion centers on the perceived assaults on scientific methods and findings by both the Academic Left and the Religious-Cultural Right. The Academic Left is criticized for promoting ideas such as epistemic relativism, postmodernism, and the notion of gender as a social construct, often targeting disciplines like anthropology and evolutionary psychology. Conversely, the Religious-Cultural Right is noted for its adherence to biblical literalism, moral absolutism, and creationism, which leads to attacks on evolution and certain social sciences. The conversation also touches on historical instances of protests against scientific concepts, such as the backlash against the term "Black Hole" and the controversial book "A Natural History of Rape," which some feminists argue could legitimize the act by discussing its biological underpinnings. The dialogue reflects a broader tension between differing ideological perspectives on science and morality, with participants expressing frustration over the extremes of both sides.
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With regards to their assault on science, its methods and findings? Note that this is a hefty generalization.

Academic Left:

Notable ideas includes epistemic relativism, postmodernism, the blank slate, the noble savage, the ghost in the machine, culture independent from biology, gender as a social construct etc. Favorite disciplines to attack includes anthropology, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, most forms of consilience that bridges natural and social sciences etc.

Religious-Cultural Right:

Notable ideas includes biblical literalism, original sin, abstinence only education, the ghost in the machine, creationism, the family, moral absolutism etc. Favorite disciplines to attack include evolution, neuroscience, sociology, certain parts of cultural anthropology etc.
 
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My professor told me that some 30 years ago he had "feminists" protesting his school, because of all the new particles they were detecting. Apparently it was a phallic symbol to create all those particles or something.
 
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Those damn feminists. When's someone going to do something about them?
As far as the generalization goes I can not stand the religious right. I don't have a problem with the religious part, just the I'm right and anyone who doesn't agree me me is wrong and is going to hell part.
 
Apparently, E = mc2 is also discriminatory and elitist, since it privileges just one of the many, many speeds there are, and on top of that, the highest. What a patriarchal wester orthodoxy!

Also, calling rape 'natural' or that it occurs frequently in nature somehow justifies it.
 
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Apparently, E = mc2 is also discriminatory and elitist, since it privileges just one of the many, many speeds there are, and on top of that, the highest. What a patriarchal wester orthodoxy!

Also, calling rape 'natural' or that it occurs frequently in nature somehow justifies it.

I have never heard anyone try to justify rape. What kind of people do you hang around with?
 
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I have never heard anyone try to justify rape. What kind of people do you hang around with?

No, a bunch of feminists got upset because of the academic book "A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion" and claimed that explaining the natural mechanisms behind it would somehow legitimize the act itself.
 
Call it "organic" next time.
 

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