In the past it was the Church who was the arbiter of truth and the ultimate authority of the nature of the world. Now we have science for that, however instead of it being clear the science is "too difficult for any normal person to understand" so you must simply believe what people with 'authority' say. Since everybody is a specialist you simply need to take people at their word or you're spending 20+ hours every time learning just how exactly they're bending the truth.
Any doubt will be shouted at with "It's proven!!!" and "Educate yourself" rather than giving an actual sensible explanation. It's a house of cards that's going to fall eventually once one persons lies or false research becomes too large to defend.
"Science" is really just a method of trying to understand the world, via "scientific method" - that is, querying Nature rather than just making assumptive pronouncements about it. The problem is when it - or rather, scientists and scientific organizations, and scientists themselves, become subverted/corrupted, despite the checks and balances on itself it's supposed to have. Example - Descartes. Not a scientist, but the propaganda he spewed on behalf of sadists passing as "scientists" stuck as "science" and has caused more death and suffering than hitler, stalin, pol pot and all those assholes combined could even dream of.
I don't know that the SJWs would agree science is the ultimate arbiter of truth. We're talking about people who recently claimed that the idea that 2+2=4 is always correct is a western construct.
In my mind, it's just the tool for the job at times. When science agrees with them against their political opponents they "fucking love science" and their opponent is an idiot. When it disagrees with them, it's a sexist white way of looking at things and you really need to center indigenous ways of knowing.
In the past it was the Church who was the arbiter of truth and the ultimate authority of the nature of the world. Now we have science for that, however instead of it being clear the science is "too difficult for any normal person to understand" so you must simply believe what people with 'authority' say. Since everybody is a specialist you simply need to take people at their word or you're spending 20+ hours every time learning just how exactly they're bending the truth.
Any doubt will be shouted at with "It's proven!!!" and "Educate yourself" rather than giving an actual sensible explanation. It's a house of cards that's going to fall eventually once one persons lies or false research becomes too large to defend.
"Science" is really just a method of trying to understand the world, via "scientific method" - that is, querying Nature rather than just making assumptive pronouncements about it. The problem is when it - or rather, scientists and scientific organizations, and scientists themselves, become subverted/corrupted, despite the checks and balances on itself it's supposed to have. Example - Descartes. Not a scientist, but the propaganda he spewed on behalf of sadists passing as "scientists" stuck as "science" and has caused more death and suffering than hitler, stalin, pol pot and all those assholes combined could even dream of.
I don't know that the SJWs would agree science is the ultimate arbiter of truth. We're talking about people who recently claimed that the idea that 2+2=4 is always correct is a western construct.
In my mind, it's just the tool for the job at times. When science agrees with them against their political opponents they "fucking love science" and their opponent is an idiot. When it disagrees with them, it's a sexist white way of looking at things and you really need to center indigenous ways of knowing.