[gavanwoolery]

' Instead, “It’s about a methodology for investigation, which includes, at its core, a relentless drive towards questioning that which came before.” You can both “love science,” he concludes, “and question it.” '

I've noticed that questioning some scientific finding often makes people think I am either anti-science, anti-intellectual, conservative, religious, or any combination thereof (I am none of these). To state quite the opposite, I think not questioning science makes you religious - you are putting faith in the findings, rather than disputing them or scrutinizing them with the scientific method (not that I think there is anything wrong with faith or religion, within their own realm).

[moonchrome]

I consider pseudo intelectual leftist dogmatic equvalent to religious right - but it doesn't mean i treat every questioning/skepticism as equal/valid/productive.

When you're discussing anything nontrivial it takes a lot of effort/knowledge to dispute a flawed argument (disproportionately harder than making one IMO) - disregarding someone on biases/agenda is a decent heuristic.

[Chris2048]

If the science has "social" before it, it always needs to be questioned - too much political interference. The entire field is low in actual results, high in political tooling..

[fapjacks]

It seems that's the case with more than just science, but possibly a good rule to follow with anything.

[Chris2048]

True. But social science is where the uncertain standards, and political gains are. No one can, or cares to, taint research into fundamental particles. Studies into any kind of demographic is a different case...