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by waterlesscloud 4052 days ago
Science has been growing a strange ego-stroking pop culture faction of late, and it's fairly worrying. It's certainly not an attitude that's actually going to improve anything. All it does is serve to create deeper divides that are even harder to bridge. People just dig in their heels.

I'm sure it's emotionally satisfying for people in some way, but I've come to a place where such an attitude significantly lowers my opinion of the person wielding it.