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== Science is not about truth: it is about honesty. == | == Science is not about truth: it is about honesty. == | ||
Science is not about truth, the way philosophy and religion often claim to be. Instead it is about honesty: the humble claim that the evidence and reasoning can be confirmed by anyone through observation and experiment and supports a preferred model better than the other models. That's why scientific notation has basic ideas such as significant figures, and statistics has confidence intervals. Opponents of science often accuse scientists of pride, but it is actually about being humble enough to not lie. (Beware of different meanings of truth here.) | Science is not about truth, the way philosophy and religion often claim to be. Instead it is about honesty: the humble claim that the evidence and reasoning can be confirmed by anyone through observation and experiment and supports a preferred model better than the other models. That's why scientific notation has basic ideas such as significant figures, and statistics has confidence intervals. Opponents of science often accuse scientists of pride, but it is actually about being humble enough to not lie. (Beware of different meanings of truth here.) | ||
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| + | == British Enclosures were an early Cultural Genocide == | ||
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| + | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure#Parliamentary_enclosure_and_open_fields The 18th and 19th century Parliamentary enclosures in Britain] dispossessed an entire class of independent farmers, forcing them into wage labor for the new owners of enclosed land and into factory labor. This destroyed an entire culture of independent farming in the lowest classes. This does not yet seem to be recognized as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide cultural genocide], but all the elements are there. Search these for "cultural" and "enclosure": | ||
| + | * [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248982744_Cultural_Genocide_and_The_Rhetoric_of_Sustainable_Mining_in_East_India Cultural Genocide and The Rhetoric of Sustainable Mining in East India] | ||
| + | * [http://repository.essex.ac.uk/23005/1/RIS%20version%20Crook%20et%20al.%20--%20Ecocide%20Genocide%20Capitalism%20and%20Colonialism.pdf Ecocide, Genocide, Capitalism and Colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments] | ||
| + | * [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642987.2017.1397631 Ecocide, Genocide And The Disregard Of Alternative Life-systems], Tim Lindgren | ||
== Homicide through the market. == | == Homicide through the market. == | ||
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Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | ||
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== Civic Fundamentalism == | == Civic Fundamentalism == | ||
